On this tour you travel to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp from Berlin with your licensed-guide. Once there there you spend around around 3 hours at the camp itself.
Once there we will discuss how and when Sachsenhausen, and the concentration camp system itself came into being, how it developed, who was imprisoned there and for what and attempt to really contextualize what occurred at the site, with regard to the Nazi Dictatorship and the Second World War.
Sites within the camp itself that we will visit/enter inc. Tower A, the infirmary building, Pathology building, Station Z (the execution facility), former camp kitchen and barrack blocks.
After 3 hours or so your guide will accompany you back to Berlin.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ A Professional Guide, Licensed and trained by the Camp's Memorial Foundation
✖ Public Transport Tickets
✖ Private transportation
Departure & Return
Return: End right where it started.
Itinerary
1
Gedenkstatte und Museum Sachsenhausen
The tour will focus on the key elements of what was the first purpose built concentration camp within Nazi Germany. We will visit:
- Tower A (main entrance)
- Camp Infirmary and pathology Building
- Station Z (the purpose-built execution facility)
- Exhibition in former camp kitchen building
- SS and Gestapo Prison
- Former prisoner barrack blocks
At the end guests will have learnt how this camp and the system itself came into being, how it developed and how the prisoner types, numbers and nationalities changed over time. These changes will be related to the back-drop of the strengthening Nazi dictatorship in the 1930's and latterly, the impact of the Second World War upon Sachsenhausen.
Duration: 3 hours
Additional info
• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
