Sachsenhausen Memorial

A trip north of Berlin to the first purpose-built concentration camp of the Third Reich, in which around 200,000 prisoners would be incarcerated between 1936-45 – before the camp became a Soviet-run prison during the Cold War.

On this tour, we will see:

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houses in which SS guards once resided

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the entrance gate with its legend ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’

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the camp’s security perimeter and watchtowers

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the roll-call arena

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Sachsenhausen’s ‘boot-testing track’

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the camp’s kitchen and laundry

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one surviving barrack of the ‘Jewish camp’

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the medical barracks and pathology laboratory

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the remains of the gas chamber and crematoria