● KZ Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen Nazi Concentration Camp

ARBEIT MACHT FREI = work sets you free (the biggest Nazi lie)

main entrance gate (watchtower A)

model layout of the camp

death strip : you'll be shot without a warning

Völkischer Beobachter: newspaper of the Nazi Party

they had special cells for important prisoners 

(Joseph Stalin's son was one of them) 

yes, work brought freedom: freedom through the chimney!

Station Z

Station Z was the nickname that the SS gave to the execution site at Sachsenhausen. The name "Station Z" resulted from the fact that the tower above the entrance gate was named "A". As an intended joke; if the entrance was “A”, the first point, then the exit (the execution site) was “Z” – the last. 

execution trench: where prisoners were shot 

guards who couldn't look in the eyes of the prisoners went to the 

others side of the fence and shot them in the head from behind

this gas chamber was also part of the "Station Z"

crematory ovens

medical experimentation on live bodies

morgue: where corpses were kept before burning

Death March:
In April 1945, the camp was evacuated and prisoners were forced to march northeast. Over 6000 of them who couldn't walk (30-40km a day) and fell on the ground were shot by the SS.

memorial for the victims of Sachsenhausen