KZ Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, Germany

( Concentrationcamp Sachsenhausen )

 

 

 Entrance gate to the camp.
   
 SS Entrance
   
 Entrance gate to the camp.
   
 Museum of the camp, with a prisoners outfit (Zebra Streifen)
   
 A plate for counterfeiting English Pound notes. The was known as 'Kommando Bernhard'
   
 Entrance gate to the camp, with the text 'Arbeit macht Frei' ('Work sets you free')
   
 The 'Appelplatz'
   
 Road Roller used by the prisoners to build roads
   
 The barbed wire surrounding the camp
   
 Building on the SS Compound
   
 Guardtower
   
 One of the few original barracks remaining ('Barack 39/40')
   
 One of the few original barracks remaining ('Barack 39/40')
   
 Overview
   
 The 'Sonderlager', just east of the main camp
   
 Remains of the crematoriums in Station Z (destruction center)
   
 Place were a large amount of prisoners were executed
   
 Central monument
   
 Former kitchen (currently museum), with a model of the neck schooting range, used by the SS to kill people in the Z Station.
   
 Guardtower
   
 Pathology
   
 The 'Schuhtest' track. A track were prisoners had to walk on all day to test shoes on different kind of undergrounds. It was one of the many ways used by the SS to torture the prisoners.
   
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