Former Nazi Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen

Beschreibung

Following the closure of the nearby Oranienburg concentration camp, the new Sachsenhausen concentration camp was established nearby in August 1936. The camp had a special role: its proximity to the Reich capital, its function as a model and training camp for the SS and, from 1938, as the administrative centre for all concentration camps. After the annexation of the Czech Republic in spring 1939 and the beginning of the Second World War, the camp was increasingly filled with prisoners from the occupied countries of Europe. By 1945, more than 200,000 people from over 40 nations were imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, of whom several tens of thousands did not survive their imprisonment.