Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial guided tour

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Place: Berlin

Duration: 6 hours

Language: English

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Visit the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Learn more about its history as the brutal training ground for SS
Listen to how life was for the prisoners and how some survived
See the foundations of Station Z, the "mass execution facility"
Get to know what changed, and what didn't change, with the arrival of the Soviets

What to expect

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

The tour is accessible for wheelchair users, please keep in mind that the site can be muddy during or after rain
Please note, there is no possibility to buy food or drinks at the memorial (bring with you what you need)
The tour runs with any kind of weather, please be appropriately dressed