Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum (Oranienburg)

Germany / Brandenburg / Oranienburg / Street of the Nations * Str. der Nationen, 22
 memorial, Second World War 1939-1945, Holocaust, concentration camp
Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin's oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili; assassin Herschel Grynszpan; Paul Reynaud, the penultimate prime minister of the French Third Republic; Francisco Largo Caballero, prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War; the wife and children of the crown prince of Bavaria; Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera; and several enemy soldiers and political dissidents.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp
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Coordinates:   52°46'0"N   13°15'45"E

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  • how could it be possible??? how these many peoples could have died here, in this little tiny place?
  • it may be tiny, but they were very efficient. it's very unfortunate
  • Never forgot what happened here and in other KZL's.
  • I was here back in 1988 (museum, obviously.) Pretty miserable place :-(
  • categories of prisoners were mainly: Communists, political prisoners, common criminals, homosexual men, Christians like Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, asocials, and Jews.[3]
  • i went there when we went on a school trip to berlin very amassing in how the nazis were able to kill them all and how they did it
  • and it was nearly 10 times the size in its peak it had forced labour factories, a SS training camp and many other large buildings
  • Yakov Dzhugashvili (Stalin) was eldest son of Joseph Stalin's . Dzhugashvili served as an artillery officer in the Red Army and was captured in the early stages of the German invasion of USSR at the Battle of Smolensk. The Germans later offered to exchange Yakov for Friedrich Paulus, the German Field Marshal captured by the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad, but Stalin turned the offer down, allegedly saying "I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant". According to some sources, there was another proposition as well, that Hitler wanted to exchange Yakov for his nephew Leo Raubal; this proposition was not accepted either. It is not clear when and how he died. According to the official German account, in April 1943 Dzhugashvili died by running into an electric fence in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was being held. In another version of Yakov was killed SS guards while trying to escape.
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