SEVEN trees dedicated to the victims of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp in eastern Germany have been felled, authorities confirmed today.

The foundation that runs the site confirmed that the trees were attacked earlier this week, with pictures showing them severed halfway up the trunk.

It said it was “appalled at the deliberate attack on remembrance” and had reported the incident to the police. 

One of the trees was dedicated to children killed at Buchenwald and the others to six prisoners. 

The trees were part of a project called “1,000 beeches” and were planted on a route outside the camp along which prisoners were taken.

Buchenwald concentration camp was built in 1937 with more than 56,000 of the 280,000 prisoners held there killed by the Nazis. 

Communists and suspected communists were among the first to be taken to Buchenwald, where the prisoners worked as forced labour in local armament factories. 

The camp was liberated by the United States on April 11, 1945.