Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Deutchland, June 2010

[Krypton]

Sachsenhausen was built in 1935 for Nazi political prisoners, and was in use until the demise of the Third Reich in 1945. It had its own gas chambers, but the primary extermination method was to take prisoners into a complex with very loud music playing. One by one the prisoners were taken to a room and shot, but the shots were never heard because of the music. In 1945 the Nazi'z reduced this complex to rubble.
The Soviets used the camp from 1945 to 1950 to as a special camp.

Not a lot remains, and there was no one there except us.
The only surviving huts are fire damaged.

Here we go:

The gates of no return

The main gatehouse - all locked up tight im afraid. Built in the same style as Auschwitz Birkenau.

Where the huts would have been.

Those harrowing words of doom...

A survived hut - fire damaged.

Inside

Some re constructed huts

Neutral Zone - There is no prior warning, you will be immidiatly shot.

A door to a watchtower - my fave pic fromt he visit,

More on my flickr as usual,

Jack

 

[Foxylady]

Thanks for sharing this, Krypton. As you said, there's not a huge amount left, but it's still harrowing to remember what went on in the extermination camps.
I love that door pic, too.

 

[nickso]

i was here last year. it's pretty well preserved if you look at the pics in the visitors centre.