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:
houses in which SS guards once resided
the entrance gate with its legend ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’
the camp’s security perimeter and watchtowers
the roll-call arena
Sachsenhausen’s ‘boot-testing track’
the camp’s kitchen and laundry
one surviving barrack of the ‘Jewish camp’
the medical barracks and pathology laboratory
the remains of the gas chamber and crematoria
