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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0097)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0099)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0103)
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The site of the gallows at the front of the prisoner roll call area; public hanging was used to remind prisoners of the powers of the SS.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0106)
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Looking back towards the entrance gate. After the war the camp was used by the Soviets/GDR as a prison and as a military base, and was bascially abandoned for a number of years. During that the time wood from the barracks was used in reconstruction elsewhere or as firewood for heating, thus there are very few remaining structures.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0108)
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The laundry building for the camp, one of the few remaining buildings; the building also served as one of the very rare locations for prisoner interaction.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0112)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0113)
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The Sachsenhausen National Memorial, erected in 1961 by the GDR (German Democratic Republic (East Germany)). The triangles at the top are in remembrance of the triangles worn by prisoners and symbolize the countries of origin of the prisoners (see adjacent photo).
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0114)
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The statue at the bottom of momument is titled 'liberation' and depicts two prisoners having been liberated by Soviet soldiers. The base of the statue contains the names of the countries of origin of the prisoners.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0115)
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In 1941 over 10,000 captured Soviet troops were executed at Sachsenhausen; the placard provides explicit detail of how the executions were carried out. An additional 3000 Soviet soldiers died either while being transported to the camp or from starvation/sickness at the camp.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0116)
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The SS had taken photos of the executed Soviet soldiers for propaganda purposes; these haunting photos are from the recovered negatives of those pictures.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0118)
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An execution trench (shooting ditch) used by the SS. The small square in about the middle of the picture was a gallows that was constructed to allow for the hanging of three prisoners at one time.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0119)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0122)
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The layout of Station Z, the final destination. In the facility, prisoners were either sent to a gas chamber or were shot in the neck, and then cremated.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0123)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0125)
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Inmates at Sachsenhausen were forced to work in factories supporting the war that were in nearby areas. Families, including children, watched the inmates being marched past to the factory; the wooden toy here was created by inmates and given to one of the children that regularly watched the men being marched past.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0126)
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A description of the Soviet camp that was at Sachsenhausen after WWII, from 1945-1950. Approximately 60,000 people who became in disfavor for criminal and non-criminal reasons were held here, at least 12,000 of those died from inhumae conditions.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0130)
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (#0133)
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Stained glass windows in the visitor center. Efforts to memorialize Sachsenhausen were begun by the GDR in the late 50's and the visitor center was build in the early 1960's.
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