This is a must see for everybody visiting Berlin - very depressing and sobering - and quite horrific. This concentration camp was one of the first two in Germany, and many thousands of people were killed and were badly savaged here - politicians, jews, disabled people, religious ministers, gays, gypsies, and anyone that the regime thought needed incarceration.
From the top:
1) The central prison complex - where people were held in horrific solitary confinement and tortured.
2) Memorial window - part of a tryptych created by the former East German Government.
3) Tower A - the entrance to Sachsenhausen - prisoners were brought into the courtyard here, and made to kneel for several hours, then beaten before admission to the centre.
4) With work comes freedom - freedom never happened.
5) The Execution trench - where regular shootings took place.
6) The pathology centre - where sterilisations of disabled people, gays and gypsies took place... as well as live experiments on people that 'looked different'. The medical team also supervised the enforced brothel...
7) Statement on one of the memorials.
8) Remnants of the Ovens used to dispose of people killed in the execution trench.
Sorry for the downbeat post, but this is a powerful memorial on the danger of despoticism...
We had to go to the Christmas markets to have a few Gluhweins....
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*sigh*
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