Mass grave memorial (Oranienburg)

Germany / Brandenburg / Oranienburg
 memorial, mass grave
In total 12,000 prisoners died of illness, malnutrition and from the conditions in Sachsenhausen special camp. In the winter of 1945/46 and 1946/47 huge numbers of prisoners died as the rations of the already undernourished prisoners were cut by half. The dead were buried naked and without identification numbers in mass graves close to the camp.
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Coordinates:   52°46'12"N   13°15'31"E
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