Our visit to Germany wouldn't have been complete without a visit to a concentration camp.My friend and I booked a guided tour to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Oranienburg, which was about an hour's train ride from Berlin. Although I usually like going off on my own and DIY-ing it, I think it was a good decision to join this tour because I got to learn more about the place and how it figured in history.
Sachsenhausen was intended to set the standard for all concentration camps. It became a training center for SS officers. Can't begin to imagine the horrors that happened inside it's walls.
Sachsenhausen was intended to set the standard for all concentration camps. It became a training center for SS officers. Can't begin to imagine the horrors that happened inside it's walls.
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| Oranienburg Train Station |
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| The tour guide said that some of the SS guards lived in these neighborhoods right outside the camp. And it would've been hard for civilians living here not to know of the horrendous crime within the camp walls. |
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| 'Work Makes (You) Free'. Concentration camps were supposedly 'work' camps. |
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| The roll call grounds. The camp is shaped like an equilateral triangle. This makes the prisoners visible to guards wherever they are in the camp. |
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| Our British guide had everyone engrossed from beginning to end. |
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| The SS put barbed wires in front of the electric fence to stop the prisoners who run into it to commit suicide. Those who attempt to do so are shot. Why? To take away that last bit of 'freedom' to take away their own life. |
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| It was said that lethal gas and drug experiments were done here in the camp. |
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| The prisoners' sleeping quarters |
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| Prisoners' wash up area |
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| Prisoner's clothes |
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| Most of the barracks and other structures in the camp were destroyed after the war. |
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| Soviet Liberation Memorial |
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