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Ravensbrück, the women's camp memorial sites in Berlin

The camp Ravensbrück

Ravenscruck The lager was originally a women's only camp in the north to the Baltic. Although a labor camp and detention and killing, it is estimated that approximately 100 000 women have died in Ravensbrück concentration camp during the operation.

the area where once stood the camp Ravensbrück

The building of the command of the camp, next to the entrance

Houses "detached" SS to the front of the camp Ravensbrück

The guards of the camp, consisting of SS, were placed outside the field in two-family residential accommodation together with families. The officers had put at the disposal of houses on a low hill under which passed the access road to the camp. From this road passing the deportations, and each time they were coming to work performed outside the camps.

Today these buildings are used, with a bold decision, but that has done much to discuss, a hostel for visitors, such as for groups of visiting students.

The houses of the officers

The prisoners arrived at the camp to walk quite a distance from the railway station near the village on the lake. The place is very beautiful, with unspoiled nature and the lake. On one side the village, on the other field. The debate as to whether the prevailing winds in the area would bring or not the smell of burnt flesh in the crematorium to the homes of those who did not know. But then he recalls a witness at the time, the apprentice butcher who supplied the tables of the guards, those figures bald, dirty, smelly, with the blank stare, with the skeletal body to which humans did not seem to have feelings or compassion. It was a shock for him to in front, one day, a group of newly arrived prisoners, naked, cold, still, for a while, with the dignity of human beings.

The large space once occupied by the barracks of the prisoners

cells of the prison camp, a hell hell

The crematorium
The bulldozer, used as a punitive instrument of fatigue

and behind the building of the oven crematorium

The Wall of Nations, dedicated to the different backgrounds of the deportees, and green open space in the field of roses: the mass grave which contains the remains and ashes of dead prisoners at Ravensbrück

deported to Ravensbrück The monument to look towards the lake and towards freedom

The address of the website (in English and German, very rich in images) is one of the memorials of Brandenburg. You log on to various sites: Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück , the museum of death marches:

http://www.stiftung-bg.de/