Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

Located some 35 kilometers from Berlin, in Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen is a former Nazi concentration camp used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets turned the camp into a gulag for their own political enemies.

It is an important historical site for anyone studying 20th Century European history and the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis and then the Soviet Union.