Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial guided tour
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At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, just outside Berlin, tens of thousands of prisoners perished at the hands of the Nazis in conditions of appalling brutality. The camp was a training ground for the SS and the site of the headquarters of the whole concentration camp system. After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets used Sachsenhausen as a camp for their own political enemies – thousands more were to perish over the following five years.
Your guide will unravel the complex history of the Holocaust and shed light on all aspects of the former camp:
- Why the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was established by the Nazis
- How life was like as a prisoner and how some of the detainees were able to survive
- How the conditions in the camp worsened in 1939
- Where the thousands of Jewish prisoners were incarcerated after the so-called “Kristallnacht”, before being sent to the death
- How the SS used the execution complex at Sachsenhausen to perpetrate acts of mass murdering
- How some Jewish prisoners survived by working in the forgery workshop, counterfeiting millions of pounds sterling
- How some prisoners were subjected to excruciating medical experiments
- how the Soviets turned Sachsenhausen into a Special Camp for their own enemies after the war
- How the East German regime manipulated the history of the camp for its own ends
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