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One former Buchenwald prisoner, Armin Walter, calculated the number of executions by shooting in the back of the head.

His job at Buchenwald was to set up and care for a radio installation at the facility where people were executed ; he counted the numbers, which arrived by telex, and hid the information.

He says that 8, 483 Soviet prisoners of war were shot in this manner.