10:00
6 hours
Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin
Adult
18-64
€28.90
Senior / Student / Youth
65+ and 13-18
€24.90
WelcomeCard
€24.90
Children
0-12
€24.90
ABC all-day ticket
Meet at our guide on the square next to the Palace of Tears, Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin. Please make sure you have your ABC All-day transport ticket, as well as some food and drinks for the day (there is nowhere to buy these once we arrive at the Sachsenhausen memorial).
The Nazis imprisoned more than 200,000 people in the former concentration camp, some 45,000 of whom fell victim to starvation, disease, forced labour, systematic extermination, and experimentation.
As the first purpose-built camp established under Himmler, Sachsenhausen was conceived as a ‘model’ structure. We explain how Nazi architects designed the grounds and buildings with a view to subjugating prisoners to the absolute power of the SS. It effectively became a training ground for the Holocaust once certain groups had been defined as racially or biologically inferior.
Our licensed guides uncover the realities of life and death in the camp. Visit the barracks, punishment cells, execution grounds, crematoria, pathology laboratory, gas chamber and infirmary. Learn of stories of valour amid the horror, such as that of the British Royal Marine Commandos forced to test German army equipment. Hear about the fate of notable prisoners, such as Stalin’s son, and how ‘death marches’ were used to murder remaining survivors before Soviet liberators set up their own Special Camp No.7/1 in Sachsenhausen. Learn about the fate of some 60,000 inmates that went through the camp between 1945 and 1950 at the hands of the Soviets. See the memorial set up by the East Germans in 1961. Conclude by discovering how this dark past is memorialised by the Germans today.
The tour guide will accompany you back to Berlin- either to S+U Friedrichstrasse station or Berlin Hauptbahnhof (depending on the best route on the day).
Insider Tour Berlin donates EUR 3,- per guest to the Sachsenahsuen memorial authority for the upkeep and promotion of the site.
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.