Sachsenhausen by Bus
Quick Overview
Description
Time
10:00
Duration
4 hours
Meeting Point
Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin
Prices
Adult 18 - 99
Adult
€59.90
Under 18 yrs
Under 18 yrs
€49.90
Required Transport Ticket
No ticket required
Highlights
- Travel in an air-conditioned bus and enjoy commentary from your guide who will prepare you for your experience in the former concentration camp
- Drive through the city of Oranienburg, where the former camp was located and see sites where the slave labourers were worked to death through attrition
- See the barracks, punishment cells, camp kitchen, execution facilities, gas chamber and crematoria
- Your licensed guide will take you through the memorial and tell you the stories of life and death at Sachsenhausen
Starting Point
Meet at our guide on the square next to the Palace of Tears, Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin.
Description
Climb aboard our private air-conditioned bus and listen to your expert guide give you the background information on the Nazi’s coming to power and the early camp system in Germany. Once you arrive at the memorial site our licensed guide will give you a full and sensitive account of the horrors that occurred in this former concentration camp.
In the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, an estimated 45,000 prisoners fell victim to starvation, disease, forced labour, systematic, experimentation or extermination. Experience the barracks, punishment cells, execution grounds, crematoria, pathology laboratory, gas chamber and infirmary. Hear stories about the brutal day to day lives of the inmates, but also survival and solidartiy amongst the prisoners and how they helped one another survive.
Learn about how Germany comes to terms with that dark chapter of it’s history through education and memorialisng the victims of the past.
At the conclusion of the tour you will be driven back to the centre of Berlin, where the tour concludes.
Finishing Point
Your guide and coach will drop you back to our central meeting point near S+U Friedrichstrasse Station.
Insider Route
The following sites are an example of our approximate route on this tour. You will see and learn stories about all these sites and many more! The route may change any day, given circumstances on the day.
- Meeting Point: on the square beside the Palace of Tears, Reichstagufer 17. On the bus ride to the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen receive all the background information preparing you for your experience
- Next you will drive with your guide to the town of Oranienburg – See locations where slave labourers worked and learn about the collaboration between the local town and the SS
- Villas for the SS functionaries, built by the slave labourers
- Inspectorate of Camps – HQ of concentration camp terror, the innocuous building from which directives were given to over 1000 camps during WW2
- SS training grounds – Today repurposed as a police training facility
- Roll call square and camp electric fence
- Inside the former concentration camp – see the old Jewish barracks
- Camp kitchen
- Crematoria
- Gas chamber
- Prison cell – Torture for prisoners and site of where special prisoners were kept, such as Georg Elser, who tried to execute Hitler in 1939
- Station Z – Mass murder, execution trench, “shot in the back of the neck” facility
- Infirmary – Experimentation on the prisoners
- Pathology centre
- Camp brothel-for the inmates
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