Sachsenhausen
Quick Overview
Description
Time
Choose your start time
Duration
5 or 6 hours
Meeting Point
The lobby of your hotel
Prices
5hr
€499
6hr
€559
Highlights
- Start the tour with a hotel pickup and travel with your guide with public transportation to Oranienburg – location of the former Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
- Learn about life at the camp, stories of survival and cruelty, from its creation by the Nazis, to its use by the Soviets post-WWII
- You’ll see areas of the camp like the Jewish Barracks, Infirmary, Camp Kitchen, Execution Trench and Cremetoria
Start your tour with a hotel pickup and travel with public transportation to the town of Oranienburg – location of the former concentration camp, Sachsenhausen. Walk with your guide through the city and learn about collaboration and resistance of the local population during the time of the Nazi regime.
After a brief break upon arrival at the memorial site, your expert licensed guide will inform you about the 200,000+ people who were imprisoned here by the Nazis and the tens of thousands were brutally murdered. Sachsenhausen was initially used to imprison political opponents. Later the camp was used as a training ground for the Holocaust once certain groups had been defined as racially or biologically inferior.
Our qualified guides relay the realities of life and death in the camp: from rationing and the brutal roll call, to all of the different forms of hard labour that the inmates had to endure, learn how the inmates suffered on a daily basis at the hands of the sadistic SS guards.
After the liberation of Sachsenhausen in 1945, the camp was repurposed by the Soviets as a “Soviet Special Camp” where enemies of the new Soviet State were incarcerated up until 1950. Then learn about the memorialisation of the concentration camp by the East Germans during the Cold War years and how its been memorialised after the German reunification in 1990.
While at the memorial site, you will see the Jewish barracks, camp prison, camp kitchen, execution facilities, gas chamber, crematoria, infirmaries, pathology center, and guard towers.
At the end of the tour, your guide will return to Berlin center with you, on the journey back to Berlin your guide can give you tips on how to best spend your remainnng time in Berlin.
Example Itinerary
The following sites are examples of things to see on this tour. Your exact route through the camp will depend on the day, but this list should give you a good idea of what to expect!
- Oranienburg Town
- HQ of the entire concentration camp system of Europe (IKL)
- Communications bunker
- SS training facility and barracks
- Commandant’s House
- Tower A machine gun nest
- Electric fence
- Jewish Barracks
- Punishment Cells
- The Gallows
- East German memorial 1961
- Execution Trench
- Station Z
- Special Camp 7/1
- Pathology Laboratory
- Infirmary
- Death March Memorial
- Return to Berlin
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