Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0138)

Layout of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the Memorial and Museum in Oranienburg, on the north side of Berlin. The camp was built in 1936 by concentration camp prisoners from a nearby camp. Being close to Berlin, the seat of the Third Reich, the camp and nearby locations became the administrative center and training grounds for the other camps in the concentration camp system.

More than 200,000 were imprisoned at Sachsenhausen between 1936 and the end of the war in 1945. Initially prisoners were mostly political opponents, but over time prisoners included members of groups defined by the Nazis as inferior as well as prisoners of war. Many died from from inhumane conditions or execution, or were shipped off to extermination camps.

After the end of WWII, the camp was used by the Soviet military as a prison.

See: www.stiftung-bg.de/gums/en/index.htm