Sachsenhausen - a concentration camp. History, description. The crimes of the Nazis

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You ever see Sachsenhausen (concentration camp)? What is it? Who created it? To these and other questions will find answers in the article. Sachsenhausen is a concentration Nazi camp. It is located in Germany, near the town of Oranienburg. In 1945, April 22, it was liberated by Soviet troops. Until 1950 this place was a transit camp of the NKVD for the displaced.

History

Sachsenhausen (concentration camp) was founded in 1936, in July. In different years the number of prisoners contained therein, up to 60,000 people. This death factory killed with more than 100,000 prisoners.

Here were prepared and PEREPODGOTOVKI “frames” for the already created and newly created camps. About Sachsenhausen from August 2, 1936 housed the headquarters of “Inspection of concentration camps”, which in March 1942 became part of the Steering group D (concentration camps), the Main administrative organ of the SS.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen - a concentration camp, which was created by the clandestine Committee of the opposition, coordinating extensive, beautifully conspiratorial organization of the prisoners. The Gestapo failed to discover. Underground led by General Alexander S. Zotov.

In 1945, April 21, was given the order to start a death March. The Nazis planned more than 30 thousand prisoners convoys of 500 people to throw in the Riviera of the Baltic sea and put on the barges. They wanted these ships to divert away from the coast and flood. Exhausted and lagging people on the March were shot. So, in Mecklenburg, in the woods near Beebe had been killed several hundred prisoners. Planned mass elimination of prisoners, however, failed to implement, as it could come to the aid of Soviet troops. In early may 1945 freed people on the March.

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G. N. Van der Bela (prisoner of Sachsenhausen number 38190) wrote that 26,000 prisoners April 20 night, left the camp. It was the beginning of the March. Of course, first they found the cart and drove her patients from the infirmary.

About half of the prisoners who participated in the death March, or were killed in transit or died. But left alive a witness. Advanced units of the Soviet troops in 1945, April 22, entered himself Sachsenhausen (concentration camp), where at that time there were about 3,000 prisoners.

The Tower “And”

So, we continue further to consider Sachsenhausen (concentration camp). Tower “And” - what is it? This is the ELECTROPULT, which distributes the current supplied on the barbed wire and mesh, stretched around the camp in the form of a large triangle. The tower also was located the commandant of Sachsenhausen and CAT. Inscribed on the gates were cynical phrase Arbeit macht frei ("Work makes one free"). The entire camp had nineteen towers, which shoots its territory.

Ground inspections

It was terrible Sachsenhausen (concentration camp). History suggests that in this place there was a parade ground checks. It was carried out the roll call three times a day. If had occurred in the camp escapes, prisoners were forced to stand on the parade ground as long as the fugitive is not caught. This place was also carried out public executions – here stood the gallows.

Station Z

Looked Like Sachsenhausen (concentration camp)? Photos of this establishment can be found in any thematic publications. They can consider the Z-station – building, placed in the territory of the concentration camp. It was carried out mass killings.

 Sachsenhausen concentration camp list of prisoners

This structure was placed in the instrument with which the executioner was shot in the head, gas chamber, attached in 1943, and crematorium, consisting of four furnaces. Sometimes the transport of people went there directly, bypassing the check in the camp. That is why no one can set the exact number of people slaughtered here.

Footwear Testing

Around the parade ground were located the track of nine different coatings that the Nazis produced to test the shoes. Daily selected prisoners it overcame sorokametrovoy distance with different speeds. The test in 1944, the SS made that difficult. They forced people to wear shoes smaller and carry bags weighing ten, and sometimes twenty-five pounds. Prisoners sentenced to such a quality check of the Shoe for periods from one month to one year. If a person has committed a particularly serious crime, he was given an indefinite sentence.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp experiments

These crimes were considered sabotage, escape, re-escape, visit another Barak, incitement to sabotage, to promote messages of foreign transmitters, pedophilia (article 176), homosexual prostitution, seduction or coercion of heterosexual men to the main camp to homosexual contacts, homosexual acts committed by mutual consent, heterosexual men. Homosexuals, who arrived in Sachsenhausen, a perpetual punishment received immediately (articles 175 and 175a).

Hospital barracks

Sachsenhausen - a concentration camp, where medical experiments were conductedterrifying. This facility supplied medical institutions of Germany demonstration of anatomical objects.

A trench for the shootings

More Than famous Sachsenhausen (concentration camp)? List of prisoners it is great. This death factory was equipped with the so-called shooting range, a morgue, a mechanized gallows and strelovidnym shaft. The gallows were fitted with a loop for the head of a prisoner and a box in which was placed his feet. In fact, the victim was stretched and hung. The Gestapo used it as a target, practicing shooting.

The Prison building

The Camp prison and the Gestapo Tselenbau was built in 1936. They had a T-shape. Special prisoners were kept in the eighty-man cell. Among them was General Grot-Rowecki Stephen – the first commander of the home Army. He was shot in the concentration camp after the outbreak of the Warsaw uprising.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp, lists of prisoners

A Lot of people swallowed Sachsenhausen (concentration camp). Bandera, Stepan, Taras Bulba-Borovets and some other leaders of Ukrainian nationalistic movement also were imprisoned in this jail. Some of them the Germans was released in late 1944.

Here they languished in captivity and pastor Neteller. In this casemate also contained other priests (about 600 souls), senior military officials, various politicians and members of the labor movement from France, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, USSR and Luxembourg.

Today the whole remained the only wing of the prison in five chambers which houses the permanent exhibition of the national socialist period. She tells about the activities of this factory of death. In some other cameras (General Grot-Roweckiego) a memorial plaque to the prisoners of the concentration camp.

NKVD special camp

In 1945, in August, Sachsenhausen was translated into “special camp No. 7” of the NKVD. Here was placed the former prisoners of war. They were Soviet citizens, awaiting the return of the USSR, social Democrats, dissatisfied with the Communist-socialist social system, the former members of the Nazi party, and a former German officers "Wehrmacht" and foreigners. In 1948, the facility was renamed the “special camp № 1». In the end, was the largest of three special camps in which internees were detained in the Soviet zone of occupation. It was closed in 1950.

 Sachsenhausen concentration camp photo

This institution lasted only 5 years. But during this period it managed to take 60 thousand Soviet prisoners of war, of which from exhaustion and starvation during his imprisonment, he died about 12 thousand souls.

Group of prisoners

Today it is difficult for people to remember Sachsenhausen (concentration camp). List of prisoners it is huge. Now we will tell you about groups of prisoners. According to some information, in Sachsenhausen among others were the bearers of the pink triangle. In the period since the establishment of the concentration camp until 1943 it killed 600 representatives of sexual minorities. In 1943, homosexuals mainly worked in the camp hospital nurses and doctors. After the war many of the surviving prisoners gay German government has not provided compensation.

Sachsenhausen today

The Government of the GDR in 1956 in the camp had established a national memorial, which was inaugurated in 1961, on April 23. The then government was planning to dismantle the lion's share of the original buildings and set a statue, an obelisk, to create a place for meetings. The role of the political opposition too was emphasized and stood out compared to other groups.

Today Sachsenhausen is a Museum and memorial. Its territory is open to the public. Several constructions and buildings have been reconstructed: the camp gate, guard towers, the camp (the Jewish part), and crematorium ovens.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp history

In memory of those killed in the camp of the homosexuals in 1992, was opened a memorial plaque. In the Museum in 1998 there was the exposition, which was devoted to Jehovah's witnesses – prisoners of Sachsenhausen.

Famous inmates

A Lot can be told about Sachsenhausen (concentration camp). Lists of prisoners of his studied so far. The most famous prisoners of this factory of death were:

  • Stalin's Son-Yakov Dzhugashvili. He was shot sentries in 1943, April 14, demonstrative in trying to escape.
  • Stepan Bandera-leader of Ukrainian nationalists. Released by the German government.
  • Jaroslav Stetsko-leader of the Ukrainian nationalists. Released by the German leadership.
  • Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev-a captive General of the red army. He was transferred to Mauthausen, where he died.
  • Lambert, horn – the Communist, the German public and political figure. Died of leukemia.
  • Fritz Thyssen – industrialist of Germany, politician, head of the steel Corporation. He was transferred to Buchenwald.
  • Alexander S. Zotov – General who headed the underground camp.
  • Jurek Becker-a German writer and screenwriter, came to the camp a little, with her mother.
  • Max Lademann – German social and political activist, a Communist revolutionary.
  • Lothar Erdmann – social Democratthe German journalist.

The Commandant of concentration camps

Sachsenhausen Commandant was Karl Otto Koch (July 1936-July 1937), Hans Helwig (August 1937 – 1938), Hermann Baranowski (1938 – 1939), Walter Eisfeld (September 1939-March 1940), Hans Loritz (April 1940 - August 1942), Anton Kayndl (August 31, 1942 – April 22 1945).

The Road to Sachsenhausen

Many interesting to see Sachsenhausen (concentration camp). How to get to that death camp? Must Berlin Central train station to go in the direction of Brandenburg station in Oranienburg on the suburban train (S-Bahn). The journey lasts 45 minutes.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp Stalin

Once you have arrived in Oranienburg (final stop), you have to walk to Sachsenhausen 3 km (a walk of 20 minutes) or drive to it on the bus. Museum admission is free. Here you can buy the audio guide. If you need guide, then you need to gather a group (minimum 15 people).Everyone has to pay 1 Euro. Here tours are conducted in all languages.

From Russia to Berlin many fly by plane. You can find information about cheap tickets to Germany. Also to Berlin from Moscow with the Belarus station can be reached by train, which runs a couple times a week. The journey time is 26 to 29 hours.

Some information

Many have brought misery to people Sachsenhausen (concentration camp). Stalin was not able to rescue his son. Blockfuhrer headed by the commandant of the concentration camp competed in the improvement of instruments of death. The intention of the SS, the crematorium and the gallows was to cause fear among the thousands of prisoners of war, taken to Sachsenhausen. Photos presented at the exhibition, and explain to them indicate otherwise: on the faces of the prisoners going to execution, had no fear, no terror.

It is Known that in appearance the Germans were not able to distinguish Soviet people-for they were all on one person. To identify Jews, the Nazis forced prisoners to strip naked, to find the cut. If circumcised, therefore, a Jew. Prisoners were also forced to shout the word "corn". If the person is Burr, it instantly shot.

As in the other death camps, Sachsenhausen was developed refined techniques of torture. For a small offense the person was severely beaten with sticks with steel wire, rubber whips, hung on a pole by ropes or chains over the splayed hands. These mockery, the SS was called a punishment, and prisoners-criminals. In fact the only “crime” prisoners was that they were captured or were Jews. Horrible tortures were invented for women in childbirth. Prisoners of Sachsenhausen, the Germans tested out new types of poisons, toxic substances, gases, drugs against typhus, burns, other injuries and ailments.

Experiments on the human impact of chemical materials was carried out only on Soviet prisoners. Killing the SS used poisonous gases that destroy garden pests. But they did not know what the lethal dose required people. To define it, they experimented on were herded into the basement of prisoners, changing the dose and fixing the time of death.

Sachsenhausen was placed enemies of the Nazi regime from across Europe. Despite the language barrier, the camp was dominated by a genuine ethnic solidarity, fraternity. The Czechs, the Norwegians, the German anti-fascists, the Dutch – senior teams, the head of the barracks, the clerks helped the Soviet people. The exhibition contains a lot of evidence.

Some prisoners – Danes and Norwegians-received food parcels. Risk to themselves, they shared meals with Soviet prisoners. If this was to become known to the SS, and both severely punished.


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