Sachsenhausen Memorial Camp Tour

The Sachsenhausen tour starts in Berlin City Center, where you will meet with your guide. After which, we take a short train ride out to the town of Oranienburg, the site of the Sachsenhausen Camp Memorial. On the way there we will learn how Hitler achieved the dictatorship and how the concentration camps in their earliest incarnation were a key instrument of Nazi terror and the suppression of political opponents.

Concentration camps were a key instrument in the Nazi’s regime of terror, and the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was unique. The camp was the first purpose-built concentration camp within the Third Reich and the closest one to Berlin. It is also one of the most visited World War Two concentration camps.

Whilst Sachsenhausen is not so ingrained within the world’s consciousness, it was an extremely important camp within the concentration camp system. As the tour progresses will learn the following.

• How Sachsenhausen became the nodal point of the entire concentration camp system.
• How the victims’ demographic changed over time as the net of persecution widened in the prelude to, and after the beginning of the Second World War.
• How the living conditions worsened at the camp during the war.
• The War crimes at the hands of the SS included the mass murder of prisoners.
• The camp changed hands after the war, first to the Soviets and then to East Germany.
• We will also provide an overview of the development of the concentration camp system as a whole.