Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp or Campo de Concentración Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp set up in 1936 at Oranienburg in northern Germany. This blog post seeks to enhance the readers’ awareness of why and how significant Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is.

1. Historical Background

In the pre-WWII Germany regime, concentration camps were used to hold people banned by the Nazi government from society. Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was one of the first concentration camps and include others of the same kind.

2. Function of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

However genuine the self-serving rhetoric of human constructive confinement was in theorisation, Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp’s main ‘function’ was actually to detain and kill enemies of the Nazis. These were political opponents, Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witness, and people of color, and other minorities.

Sachsenhausen concentration camp was built to house prisoners for forced labour, under extremely brutal working conditions in various camps, for factories and construction sites. There were times when many prisoners retreated to death or extreme exhaustion was caused by working to the bone.

2.1. Medical Experiments

Other main activities included forced working and using them for medical experiments as widely practised at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The purpose of these experiments was to extend the knowledge of Nazi medical sciences, and as a consequence, the g rapid suffering to the inmates as well.

3. Housing Standards and Care

Sanitation was extremely bad in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. The prisoners were cramped in unsanitary overcrowded barracks, they can wake up hungry, naked and sick, and cannot be treated or fed. They were flogged with horrible punishments, beat and tormented mentally.

3.1. This paper focuses on the development of the Prisoner Classification System.

Like most concentration camps, Sachsenhausen had a strict prisoner classification means that everyone was sorted into different groups depending on the prisoner’s sending office. Political prisoners were identified from other categories of inmates by the camp uniform different colored triangles of which enabled the guard to identify the political prisoners easily.

4. Significance and Liberation

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp appears to have been central to the other concentration camps that were already central to holocaust, the other concentration camp that acted as training center for SS personnel. For this reason, they became camps that depicted oppression under the Nazis, the suffering of mankind under the Nazis.

Soviet troops reached the camp and liberated it on the 22 of April in 1945. It became an opportunity and what can be clearly seen here was the struggle for liberation which helped to bring the end to the camp and the suffering of the people and freedom to seek justice.

4.1. Memorial and Museum

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is one of today’s leading memorial sites and museums, offering a powerful evidence of the Second World War expense. The memorial site includes an information centre where one can get an overview and pick up a brochure and /or take a guided tour and see the exhibits from the camp.

Conclusion

,Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was one of the most severe and notorious facilites managed by the Nazis during the Holocaust period. It was used as a concentration camp, factory, or prison camp, a medical experimentation center, and a concentration camp where men, women, elders and children suffered unimaginable fate. The liberation of the camp stopped all the suffering but it remains a symbol of the worst in people kind.