Heating was minimal. Each day time to get up, wash, use the toilet and eat was very limited in the crowded facilities. There was an infirmary inside the southern angle of the perimeter and a camp prison within the eastern angle. There was also a camp kitchen and a camp laundry. There was an additional area sonder lager outside the main camp perimeter to the north; this was built in for special prisoners that the regime wished to isolate.
An industrial yard, outside the western camp perimeter, contained SS workshops in which prisoners were forced to work; those unable to work had to stand to attention for the duration of the working day. Heinkel, the aircraft manufacturer, was a major user of Sachsenhausen labour, using between 6, and 8, prisoners on their He bomber.
Other firms that used Sachsenhausen labour included AEG. The camp was secure and there were few successful escapes. The perimeter consisted of a three metre high wall on the outside. Before the outbreak of World War II , most of the inmates were German communists or Soviet prisoners of war, including some Jewish prisoners. In November , just after the events of Kristallnacht ,1, Jews were jailed in Sachsenhausen and about of them were subquently murdered in the following weeks.
In September , thousands of communists, social-democrats and former trade union leaders were arrested in Germany. About 5, of them were sent to Sachsenhausen , as well as Jews. At the end of September , there were 8, prisoners in the camp. In November , this number increased to 11, prisoners. Also at this time, the first Typhus epidemic broke out. Because the SS refused to provide the prionsers with any medical care and due to the lack of food, hundreds of inmates died in the following weeks.
The dead were originally sent to the crematories installed in nearby Berlin , located not far from Sachsenhausen. I n September , thousands of communists, social-democrats and former trade union leaders were arrested in Germany. End of September , there were 8, prisoners in the camp.
In November , this number increased dramatically to 11, prisoners. At this time, the first Typhus epidemic started. Because the SS refused to give any medical care and due to the incredible lack of food, hundreds of inmates died in the following weeks.
Until April , the dead were sent to the crematories installed in Berlin, located 35 km from Sachsenhausen. In April , the first crematory was built in Sachsenhausen. Sachsenhausen: Photo found on a SS. L ike all other Nazi concentration camps, the conditions of life in Sachsenhausen were incredibly barbaric.
More than 30, remaining internees were marched off in groups towards the north-west. Thousands of internees died on these Death Marches. On 22 April , units of the Soviet and Polish armies finally liberated around 3, sick internees as well as nurses and doctors who had been left behind in the camp.
Permanent exhibitions. Wir verwenden Cookies auf dieser Website. Cookies sind kleine Textdateien, die auf Ihrem Computer gespeichert werden. By autumn of there were few Jewish prisoners still in Sachsenhausen, and their numbers remained low until In the spring of , SS authorities began to bring thousands of Hungarian and Polish Jews from ghettos and other concentration camps to Sachsenhausen as the need for forced laborers in Sachsenhausen and its subcamps increased.
Many of these new Jewish prisoners were women. By the beginning of the number of Jewish prisoners had risen to 11, Following anti-German demonstrations in Prague in November , German authorities incarcerated some 1, Czech university students in Sachsenhausen. In total, German authorities deported over 6, people from the annexed Czech provinces to Sachsenhausen. German forces in Poland shot or deported to concentration camps thousands of Poles, especially teachers, priests, government officials, and other national and community leaders, in an attempt to eliminate the Polish educated elite and thereby prevent organized resistance to German rule in Poland.
The German authorities sent some of these Poles to Sachsenhausen. On May 3, , for example, 1, Polish prisoners arrived in Sachsenhausen from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw. The prisoners included many juveniles, Catholic priests, army officers, professors, teachers, doctors, and minor government officials. The first group of Soviet prisoners of war arrived in Sachsenhausen at the end of August By the end of October , the SS had deported about 12, Soviet prisoners of war to Sachsenhausen.
Camp authorities shot thousands of the Soviet POWs shortly after they arrived in the camp.
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