Sachsenhausen: Walk Through the biggest Concentration Camp of WW2 4k
Channel: Explore with Sonja
Date: 2023-06-24

The memorial center of #Sachsenhausen tells the story of one of the biggest concentration camps on German territory from 1936 to 1945. 

The special thing about the Sachsenhausen camp that on the same campsite there was first a Nazi concentration camp and then also a forced labour camp of the Russians, Special Camp Nr. 7. 
It was perceived by the SS as an ideal concentration camp, following the world view of the SS and intended to subject the internees to the absolute power of the SS, symbolically and in reality. 
More than 200.000 people were interned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1936 and 1945.
The biggest groups were people were groups by the nazis seen as racially inferior, like Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as opponents of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and criminals. 

For more info, check out my paper "The Concentration Camp as an Extreme Form of a Total Institution": https://www.grin.com/document/162352 

After WW2, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used by the NKVD as Special Camp Nr. 7 from August 1945 to 1950. 
In the Camp were held Nazi functioners, and political prisoners and inmates sentenced by the Soviet Military Tribunals. 

In this time, almost all buildings from the Concentration Camp were used again, except the gas chamber and extermination facilities. 

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