Sachsenhausen concentration camp

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Sachsenhausen concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp near Berlin, used primarily for political prisoners and forced labor, and became a central site of persecution and terror during the Third Reich.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi concentration camp
forced labour camp
closed 1945
continent Europe
coordinateLocation 52.761°N 13.259°E
country Nazi Germany
estimatedNumberOfDeaths tens of thousands
estimatedNumberOfPrisoners over 200000
hasPart barbed wire fence
camp infirmary
crematorium
execution trench
gas chamber
punishment cells
roll-call square
watchtowers
heritageDesignation memorial and museum
inception 1936
liberatedBy Red Army
liberationDate 1945-04-22
locatedNear Berlin
location Oranienburg
memorialName Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum
notablePrisoner Dimităr Peshev
Franciszek Gajowniczek
Georg Elser
Martin Niemöller
Paul Reynaud
Stefan Rowecki
Yevgeny Ginzburg
opened 1936-07-12
operatedBy SS-Totenkopfverbände
Schutzstaffel
partOf Nazi concentration camp system
postWarUse Soviet NKVD special camp
memorial site
significantEvent death marches of 1945
state Brandenburg
usedFor detention of prisoners of war
extermination through labour
forced labour
medical experiments
persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
persecution of Jews
persecution of Roma and Sinti
persecution of homosexuals
persecution of political opponents
political imprisonment
victimGroup Jehovah's Witnesses
Jews
Poles
Roma and Sinti
Soviet prisoners of war
Spanish Republicans
homosexuals
political prisoners


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