Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Full-Day Tour

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Duration: 6h
Location: Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen, Oranieburg, Germany | Oranieburg, Germany


Category: Day Trips & Excursions

Highlights:
Pivotal concentration camp just outside Berlin
Personal encounter with a horrifying & historic environment
Time to reflect at the camp's memorial
Opportunity to perceive the daily life of the many prisoners
Trained guide to provide narrative with compassion & empathy

Inclusions:
Guided walking tour of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial
Commentary in English
Map

Description:

Central to the network of inhumane concentration camps, Sachsenhausen was also an SS training facility. Learn of its atrocities and gain historical perspective on its Nazi and Soviet use. This full-day tour offers poignant insight into one of the 20th century’s most profound brutalities.

On the fringes of a national park lies the infamous site of Sachsenhausen. Incarcerating primarily political prisoners, the camp saw the deaths of 30,000 people. Witness its preserved barracks and sparse living conditions, observe the remains of the hugely emotive execution facilities, and begin to grasp the magnitude of the crimes committed here.

Learn about the daily life of its prisoners and about its counterfeit currency operation, the largest ever seen and a Nazi strategy to affect the economies of the allied forces. Hear how the horrors continued after WWII as the Soviets commandeered it for their own undesirable means.

Pause for thought at the memorial, contemplating the harrowing sights and remembering the tens of thousands of lives lost in the pursuit of one man’s perverse ideal.