Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Berlin The triangle of the Sachsenhausen camp
Field Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg in Brandenburg, is not the first field to be established, but it's probably the first to be "built" specifically for the purpose. It was not to reuse an old brewery (as had happened in Oranienburg since March 1933) but to rationally design a structure capable of optimizing the function of holding thousands of prisoners by guards to the minimum of supervision. Hence the unusual triangular shape. In the middle of the base, and the entrance, above the entrance, the guard tower capable of controlling the whole field. The cabins are arranged radially around the parade-ground in two rows. The structures "technical" (pit of executions, elimination chamber, crematoria) are out of triangle on the left. The mechanism worked until the number of prisoners has made the original field overflowing with other cabins on the right, beyond the control of the watchtowers.
bricks were made at Sachsenhausen in Germany, the new city that was to take place in Berlin. With the progress of the war and the necessities of war production, labor to make bricks was replaced by the inside of the arms factory
The building of the entrance of the camp
in Dachau, Sachsenhausen as, like Auschwitz
The fence at the entrance tower
The mustering
The mustering bounded, then, the barracks, Today, the silhouettes of the huts have disappeared. It captures a characteristic of the memorials at Sachsenhausen Holocaust located in what was East Germany. The spaces in part of the camp were re-used or as prison camps for former Nazis or, in succession, as barracks for the Red Army units stationed in Germany. But hand in hand some areas of the camps were intended to bear witness to the Nazi horror and to celebrate the victory of the anti-Nazi forces and in particular those Soviet. Hence the tendency to work not only preserved, but "interpretation" of the camp where, as in Sachsenhausen, the wide open spaces became places for the annual celebrations of victory over fascism.
But at least, in such a way, that memory and those spaces have come down to us, with some superfettazione, but readable and useful. If one thinks about what happened to the transit camp in Bolzano, or even the conditions of Fossoli ...
A cabin of the two engaged in nursing
The necropsy laboratory
the pit for the performances. Especially Soviet POWs
The remains of the crematoria and execution chambers, a gas chamber and a chamber for removal by shot in the neck.
The crematorium at Sachsenhausen
The recovery of the proceeds as artifacts in an archaeological dig. Note the double walls with cavity. These are the rooms of elimination, the shot was fired from the neck adjoining room through a hole in the wall. The prisoner was believed to be deleted would be subjected to medical examinations, including height musurazione. Approached the back wall was in the right position, ready to be killed. Thick walls and double and loud music covered the noise of the shot exploded
The remains of the rooms of the executions
The address of the website (in English and German, very full of pictures) is that of memorials in Brandenburg. You log on to various sites: Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, the museum of death marches:
http://www.stiftung-bg.de/
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