If you are planning to visit to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial in Germany, you may find it useful to listen to an audio guide. They are a low cost tool that can help you get a better understanding of the camps history as well as providing interesting facts and historical details.

Why Use an Audio guide?

An audio guide creates personal, self-paced route through the memorial, and at the same time offers a historical background as well as biographical information about former prisoners experiences. as well as the historical background as to why a particular place, and what happened there.

Benefits of Using an Audio guide Sachsenhausen:

Enhanced Understanding: The audio guide focuses on the camp’s architecture, monuments, history. and the  prisoners everyday lives. 

Flexible Exploration: Visitors can go round the memorial grounds and decide on how much time to spend on each area/exhibit.

Language Options: The audio guide is offered in several languages, so people from different countries can listen to the information provided and get more of an understanding of the camps history.

How to Attain and How to Use an Audio guide Device:

On arrival, enter the administration building and search for the counter where audio guides are rented for 3.50€. 

The audio guide is a small palm-sized device, and is very simple to use. You will be given a pamphlet with a layout of the camp as well as a brief summary of every position you will visit. Simply press the number cited on the pamphlet for each position, and then press “PLAY.“ Each description is a couple minutes in length, and more detailed information is provided for those wishing to learn more. 

Conclusion

By taking an audio-guided tour of the memorial you can ensure you will leave the memorial with a better understanding of what truly took place there.