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Sachsenhausen concentration camp - Germany

Bunk beds inside barracks. Prisoners would shared each bed with 1 or even 2 others.
Hygiene area inside the barracks.
Remains of crematories
One of the several barracks where prisoners lived. 
Medical examination and experimentation area

Sachsenhausen was a nazi concentration camp operating between 1936 and 1945. In that period around 200.000 prisoners were held on it, and more than 30.000 died due to hunger, disease, forced labor, mistreatment or by systematic extermination by the SS. 

It was sort of a laboratory to perfect and ideate the most efficient and effective execution methods to later be used in other death camps. What started as a political prisoners camp to apply these methods, became a highly concentrated camp with all type of prisoners: homosexuals, jews, polishes and soviets. 

Besides it was a labor camp and in its premises it held a gas chamber, a medical experimentation area, punishments tools and an execution trench. The famous Operation Bernhard was held here, when the Germans forced prisoners to produce forged British and North American currency as a plan to devalue their economies. 

Is located in Oranienburg, 35 kms north of Berlin. 


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