Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen is a Nazi concentration camp established in 1936 in Oranienburg, a town 30 km north of Berlin. It had several objectives: to be a model camp, whose architecture was intended to demonstrate the supremacy of Nazi ideology; to train future camp leaders (Rudolf Höss did his training here before becoming head of the Auschwitz complex) and SS concentration camp managers (SS Totenkopf); and to house the headquarters of the Concentration Camp Inspectorate (I.K.L.). At its peak, the Sachsenhausen complex included almost a hundred external camps and Kommandos. It was liberated by the Red Army in April 1945. Between 1936 and 1945, an estimated 200,000 people were interned and 84,000 died. In August 1941, a mass massacre took place there, with the execution of over 13,000 Soviet soldiers as prisoners of war. Today, it has been converted into a memorial museum, with 10 permanent exhibition spaces, each presenting a major aspect of the camp's history. Wikipedia source

Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen is a Nazi concentration camp established in 1936 in Oranienburg, a town 30 km north of Berlin. It had several objectives: to be a model camp, whose architecture was intended to demonstrate the supremacy of Nazi ideology; to train future camp leaders (Rudolf Höss did his training here before becoming head of the Auschwitz complex) and SS concentration camp managers (SS Totenkopf); and to house the headquarters of the Concentration Camp Inspectorate (I.K.L.). At its peak, the Sachsenhausen complex included almost a hundred external camps and Kommandos. It was liberated by the Red Army in April 1945. Between 1936 and 1945, an estimated 200,000 people were interned and 84,000 died. In August 1941, a mass massacre took place there, with the execution of over 13,000 Soviet soldiers as prisoners of war. Today, it has been converted into a memorial museum, with 10 permanent exhibition spaces, each presenting a major aspect of the camp's history. Wikipedia source