Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Berlin
It opened on July 12, 1936, and later it was established as the principal concentration camp for Berlin. At first it was occupied by political opponents or criminal offenders, later on they started to bring jews, homosexuals, Jehovah´s witnesses and Soviet civilians. By 1945 they were more than 65 000 prisioners.
A German phrase meaning "Work makes one free", it is located as well on the entrance of Auschwitz
Death march
A death march was a forced march of prisoners of war. When Germany´s military force was collapsing, near the end of the war, prisioners were taken in dead gears for moving them into camps so that they could be used as forced laborers. They were forced to march in bitter cold, with little or no food, water or rest. Those who were not able to keep up, were shoot.
Stained glass memorial showing families encarcerated in the Nazi Sachsenhausen
Memorial for the victims of the concentration camp (1936-1945)
Endlich Frei!
