Sachsenhausen
Quick Overview
Description
Time
10:00
Duration
6 hours
Meeting Point
Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin
Prices
Adult
18-64
€28.90
Senior / Student / Youth
65+ and 13-18
€24.90
WelcomeCard
€24.90
Children
0-12
€24.90
Required Transport Ticket
ABC all-day ticket
Highlights
- Our expert licensed guides uncover the realities of life and death in the camp: people fell victim to starvation, disease, forced labour and systematic extermination
- Learn of stories of valour amid the horror, and the use of ‘death marches’ to murder remaining survivors before Soviet liberation
- Visit the punishment cells, execution grounds, crematorium and the gallows
- See the location where heinous experiments were undertaken in the infirmaries
- Go in to the Jewish barracks and hear about what it took to survive under the brutal conditions of the SS
Starting Point
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).
Description
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.
Finishing Point
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).
Donation
Insider Tour Berlin donates EUR 3,- per guest to the Sachsenahsuen memorial authority for the upkeep and promotion of the site.
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 next to the Palace of Tears, Reichstagufer 17
- S-bahn Oranienburg
- Old SS functionary villas, built by concentration camp inmates
- Inspectorate of concentration camps – where all of the decisions were made on the entire camp system of Europe
- Former SS training grounds
- The interior of camp Sachsenhausen Memorial – the barracks, punishment cells, prison, camp kitchen, execution chamber, pathology center, infirmary, gas chamber, crematoria
Insider Reviews
Gallery
