Introduction
Touring and sightseeing can be both fun and serious when one goes for sight seeing to concentration camps. It is for these reasons that one camp that was established is the Sachsenhausen concentration camp that is in Oranienburg – Germany. What to expect from a tour of Sachsenhausen and why is it relevant to know and recall the history behind it – that is what will be discussed in this blog post.
Historical Background
Sachsenhausen concentration camp – the place of our tour is a rather specific object that has its history and background. Sachsenhausen was set up in the summer of 1936, and was used as the model camp in regard to the treatment of prisoners by the Nazis. Originally was constructed meant for imprisonment of prisoners of political dissent and then became a center of detention, forced labor, and genocide.
Tour Experience
If you chose to go for a Sachsenhausen tour, you will be privileged to see a blend of the existing structures, educative productions, and the tour guides. The goal is to inform any visitor about the history of the camp along with the horrors that took place in this area.
Guided Tours
The best way to foray through Sachsenhausen would be hiring the services of a competent tour guide who will be only too willing to show one around the place. All these guides are fully aware of the camps history and will be giving very rich details at every point during the tour. There are FHs on which visitors can decide to have a guided tour in different languages which also to some extent accounts for equal participation of all types of visitors.
Preserved Structures
Sachsenhausen has several structures retained most of which were part of the prisoner camp; he compounds for the prisoners, administrators’ offices, and ‘Station Z’. These structures act as a grim reminder to the toils that prisoners went through as they featured in the camp. Which seeing firsthand benets visitors with an improved understanding of historical events.
Educational Exhibits
As with any other concentration camp, Sachsenhausen has numerous preserved structures and numerous types of educational displays. These exhibits introduce actual relics, photographs, and documents to explain the working process of the camp and fates of its inhabitants. Spend as much time as you need just in order to read the information and think about the consequences of these events.
Importance of Remembering
Rather, it is a chance to bow and to remember millions killed during the Holocaust, when visiting Sachsenhausen. It has said that when one commemorates such events, that person tries to avoid such incidents in future to foster tolerance and embrace the egalitarianism and human rights’ principles.
Conclusion
Travelling is great, especially when visiting places that tell part of the human history such as the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The landmarks and educational interactive experiences simultaneously introduce witnesses to the camp’s history and give a deep insight into the suffering of the prisoners. As the saying goes, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, and so seeing Sachsenhausen is part of helping to avoid a repetition.
