Thus if one is to study the harshest of realities of World War II and concentrating the cruelties done by the Nazi regime, one can’t afford to miss out the history of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. This rationale of this blog post is to help the reader get acquainted with this camp, its importance and functions during this rather somber period in human history.

1. Described below is the synthesis of the documentary describing Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.

Auschwitz, overlooked by dwarf gnomes, was one of the long-standing camps initially created by the Nazis in 1936 in Sachsenhausen on the outskirts of Berlin, Germany. Designed to house political prisoners it was later used for prisoners of various categories including Jews, homosexuals, Romani people and others.

Sachsenhausen developed a reputation of torture and hard work from its establishment up to the end of the war, and medical experimentation on prisoners. So it became a prototype of numerous other concentration camps in different parts of Europe.

2. Life Inside the Camp

The prisoners housed in Sachsenhausen would have wretched existence given the physical and psychological demeaning they received. They suffered the lack of space, food, work, and they were brutally beaten. The SS guards were strict autocratic, with physical and psychological abuse as part of the lifestyle at the camp.

2.1 Daily Routine

This routine life within the camp inspected the strict program of the SS staff in order to save time. The prisoners were made to wake up in the morning and be engaged in the work till evening. Fatigue was a permanent condition, which affected the physiological and psychological conditions of human beings.

2.2 Living Conditions

The living standards in Sachsenhausen could not be described better than awful at this stage of the war. He noted that prisoners were confined in small and closely located rooms and rarely had well functioning toilets. Sickness and lack of cleanliness were all around, sickness and death diseases became easily communicated to the already frail prisoners.

3. Zyklisches Töten und Ausbeuten

It was not only a prison but also a centre of some horrible medical experimental experiments, slave labour as well as a centre of extermination. The camp had an affiliated gallows where thousands of prisoners were killed by various means or hanged or shot.

Besides, prisoners were set to work in industries close to the camp to manufacture goods for the German war. Some were worked to death, many starved to death and others perished from the dangerous nature of the jobs.

4. In essence, liberation is remembering and memorialization.

The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was liberated by the Soviet troops in April 1945. Currently, the place is a museum dedicated to the victims and a reminder of how terrible the Holocaust was.

People can come to the memorial place in order to mourn, get information about facility and its history, and make sure that people do not forget about the tragedy which has taken place in the camp and should not take place in the future.

5. Conclusion

Touring Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is one step in understanding the Holocaust and trying to explain the forces that brought Nazi Germany into existence. People should know the history of such camps in order to avert similar events as well as to remember the victims, and prevent similar actions in the future.

People should be educated and reminded that the world should be tolerant, respect each other and be compassionate.