Where is sachsenhausen located

On May 29th, , the SS invited dozen of high ranked Nazi official for the inauguration of the new installation. In order to show them how the new installation was efficient, 96 Jews were killed by shooting. In March , a gas chamber was added to the "Station Z". This gas chamber was used until the end of the war. The number of gassed victims is unknown because the transports for gassings were not registered in the entry registers of the camp. Model of the "Station Z" in the museum of Sachsenhausen.

I n and begin of , due to the Allied advance, the number of prisoners increased dramatically. On April 20th and 21th, , because of the Soviet Army advance, 33, prisoners were forced to leave the camp on a Death March. They were divided in groups of The SS intended to embark them on ships then sink those ships. Thousands of inmates died during this Death March.

They were killed by shooting because they were too weak to walk. T he camp was liberated by a unit of the 47th Soviet Army on April 22th, Each day the SS marched up to 2, internees over the canal bridge to the Klinkerwerk brickworks before the eyes of the local populace. When a barrack camp was erected there in , the Klinkerwerk gained the status of an independent satellite camp. It comprised a shoe testing path with various different surfaces which was laid out around the parade ground, and internees had to march on it for days on end with full packs to test the suitability of various shoe sole materials.

From , more than satellite details and satellite camps were set up in the course of the mass deployment of concentration camp internees as forced labourers in the armaments industry. These camps were located near arms factories such as the Heinkel aircraft works in Oranienburg or next to Berlin arms factories such as those of AEG and Siemens. Tens of thousands of internees died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a result of hunger, disease, forced labour, medical experiments and mistreatment or were the victims of systematic extermination operations by the SS.

About six months later, in the spring of , an extermination unit was built in the industrial yard, with a crematorium and a neck shot unit, with a gas chamber added in Some 80, people were incarcerated in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and its satellites at the beginning of , of whom 58, were in the Sachsenhausen main camp.

The name Station Z was intended to be a joke, according to the Memorial Site built their in later years, because the entrance to the camp was through Building A, which was the gate house, and Station Z was the exit from the camp for those who were executed.

The number of gassed victims is unknown because the transports for gassings were not registered in the entry registers of the camp. With the advance of the Red Army in the spring of , Sachsenhausen was prepared for evacuation.

They were divided into groups of The SS intended to embark them on ships then sink those ships. Most of the prisoners were physically exhausted and thousands did not survive this death march; those who collapsed en route were shot by the SS. Most of them were starving, ill and too weak to welcome their liberators.

Like in several other camps, and despite the medical care they received from the Allied armies, many inmates died in the days following the liberation.

About , people passed through Sachsenhausen between and Some , inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition or pneumonia from the freezing winter cold.

Many were executed or died as the result of brutal medical experimentation. Sachsenhausen was also the site of the largest counterfeiting operation ever, perhaps. Over one billion pounds in counterfeited banknotes was recovered. Nazi functionaries were held in the camp, as were political prisoners and inmates sentenced by the Soviet Military Tribunal.

The 60, people interned over five years included 6, German officers transferred from Western Allied camps. Others were Nazi functionaries, anti-Communists and Russians, including Nazi collaborators and soldiers who contracted sexually transmitted diseases in Germany. By the closing of the camp in the spring of , at least 12, had died of malnutrition and disease.

In , the East German government established the site as a national memorial, which was inaugurated on April 22, The plans involved the removal of most of the original buildings and the construction of an obelisk, statue and meeting area reflecting the outlook of the then-government. The role of political resistance was emphasised over that of other groups. At present, the site of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp is open to the public as a museum and a memorial. Several buildings and structures survive or have been reconstructed, including guard towers, the camp entrance, crematoriums and the camp barracks.

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