Todeslager Sachsenhausen
TODESLAGER SACHSENHAUSEN
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Sachsenhausen was a German concentration camp. From 1936 to 1945 Camp Sachsenhausen was run by the National Socialist regime as a camp for mainly political prisoners. It was named after the Sachsenhausen quarter, part of the town of Oranienburg, north of Berlin .
About 200,000 people were held prison in Sachsenhausen between 1936 and 1945; 100,000 of them died. Many were executed or died as the result of medical experimentation. Over 100 Dutch resistance fighters were executed at Sachsenhausen.
Between 1945 and 1950 Camp Sachsenhausen was run by the Stalinist Soviet forces in occupied Germany. From the 60.000 prisoners 12.000 have died.
Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen
Nachrichten aus Berlin
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