Death camps or extermination camps of the World War II were present in Berlin and among them there were several. These camps were built by the Nazis to execute the Industrialized killing through giving a maximum efficiency to genocide, which targeted the Jews together with other groups the Nazis considered as unwanted or enemies. Despite the fact that today many people connect Auschwitz and other camps with the Holocaust, Berlin also has its shares in it.
Terezin – also called Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
Among those, Theresienstadt in Berlin was one of the most famous death camps. Estabished in the area of northwest of the city, it was a transit camp which was mainly Jewish people from Czech . As stipulated it was a ‘family camp,’ living conditions were extremely brutal and many were transported to extermination camps east later on.
The fact that Theresienstadt was ever created, was primarily intended to be used as a propaganda instrument by the Nazis who wanted to give a perception of the prisoners in the ghetto being well treated. They displayed it as an assuaging Jewish colony of arts and entertainment and even allowed the Red Cross society to tour the camp. Nevertheless, the realties where quite the opposite here in this site thousands of people paid the price with their lives.
Sachsenhausen Concentration Campanical August Derhat Nisan 2017 Last modified November 11, 2020 Accessdate: November 11, 2020 Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp[] Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was first established in the year 1936 by the Nazi regime in Oranienburg, Germany.
Another camp that was situated near Berlin was Sachsenhausen, which was clearly one of the most famous death camps ever. Located in Oranienburg just outside Berlin, it started in 1936 and was closed at the end of the Second World War. Sachsenhausen was an example for a more ‘advanced’ design of concentration camps, with a triangular groundplan and the so-called sub-camps.
Sachsenhausen was primarily a political prisoners’ camp for communists, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses and the like. Slavery was the order of the day, and the Working conditions they received were nothing short of inhuman. Also, Sachsenhausen could also be used for training purposes for SS personnel in concentration camp.
The camp named Ravensbrück was recognized as a concentration camp.
Although it was not in Berlin, Ravensbrück was the only women’s concentration camp in the Nazi system and should be noted because of its nearness to Berlin. Located 90 km north of Berlin, the town was involved in the Holocaust during Word War II.
Ravensbrück camp official was sparing accommodating and housed about 130,000 female prisoners from different fields of activity, P, Jews and Romani women, among Other prisoners. The medical camp’s administration tortured prisoners using medical procedures, and most of the prisoners died.
Remembering the Victims
The selected concentration camps in Berlin and its surroundings were facilities where people experienced pain and death. Therefore the importance is placed into the fact that people must remember the victim and learn from the event so that such things in the future cannot happen again. One can pay respect to visit such memorial establishments as Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum and the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen (Ravensbrück) to feel the horror of the crimes and to mourn those people who had been killed.
In this way, honoring the victims and studying the evil events we can contribute to a creation of a better society that is free from discriminative and brutal actions.
