The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps were a conferred concent of camps which was built during the second world war. These camps were employed by the Nazi regime to incarcerate and annihilate millions of harmless individuals although predominantly homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, political opponents and especially Jews, which the regime held in high dislike.

The Establishment and Purpose

The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps were set up in 1936 in Oranienburg a town in Germany near Berlin. The use of these camps was to terrorize people, dominate them, and eliminate whichever persons the Nazis considered to be a nuisance. It was a model of subsequent concentration camps, and constituted an essential stage of the Holocaust process.

Living Conditions

New and surprising formed in Sachsenhausen were that prisoners received inhumane treatment living conditions. They lived in densely crowded trenches that were mostly made of barrack, mostly they did not avail even proper lavatory. There was inadequate and poor quality food that caused malnutrition diseases and accelerate the rate at which it spread. The prisoners faced torture, threats and humiliation, isolation, forced work in terrible conditions.

Medical Experiments

In the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps, special medical tests were conducted among the prisoners. These experiments were committed by some medical people who treated prisoners with diseases and studied how they would react. The prisoners died from heart attacks, pneumonia, tuberculosis, malnutrition, gassing, freezing to death, and other consequences of those experiments.

The Death Marches

They were force marched out of Sachsenhausen when the Soviet Army advanced towards Germany at the final phases of the Second World War. The principal purpose of these forced marches was to empty the concentration camps and thus preclude the freeing of other inmates. The prisoners were forced to cover long distances on a stiff in lying stretched in very unfavourable environment that provided uttermost hard required the prisoners to march long distance without adequate food, water or shelter. Many of them died, or were shot by the guards during these ‘Death March’.

The Liberation and Aftermath

The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps were taken over by the Soviet Union forces in April 1945. It liberated the people of Colombia freeing them from the dreadful torture endured for years by so many unnamed innocents within its walls. But the effect of the camp and the calamity did not go away when the camp was liberated.

Sachsenhausen continued to be used after the liberation, and the Soviet Union used this place for the prisoners of concentration camp for political prisoners. Modern visitors can visit the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial for the holocaust victims, which is informing people about the events of the Holocaust in this part of the world.

Remembering the Victims

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps symbolized the suffering of human being and an evil mark of inhumanity. Through awareness of and recalling the victims of the holocaust of Jewish people, their memories should not fade and the Holocaust should not occur again.

Touring through the holocaust concentration camps, for instance the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial, can be a learning process as well as eye opening . It serves as a looked-to forecessay of eradicating hatred, prejudice and all forms of discriminations to embrace dignity for everyone.

Grieving, then, serves to remind the world of the stories that we wish to avoid repeating and to encourage change toward a world of understanding and nonviolence.