The Stage of Survival: The Art of Theater in Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Many of the concentration camps and ghettos under the Nazi regime had cultural and artistic activities, which have been reported upon. The cabaret was very popular in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Any available space could be transformed, as was done in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Theresienstadt. It seems apparent that these cabaret presentations were acts of resistance and attacks on the Third Reich. The heavily satirical content of these entertainment sites has already been no...