Josef Schütz, 101, was found guilty of complicity in the mass murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. Charlotte Knobloch ...
Schütz was also accused of keeping prisoners in inhumane conditions. Sachsenhausen opened in 1936 and initially held political prisoners. By the time it was liberated in 1945, some 200,000 ...
On these tours, visitors will get to explore Sachsenhausen’s grounds, learning about the camp's history and its origin, what "everyday life" was like for the prisoners held there, and more about ...
From the county jail, he was taken to the Gestapo prison in Oslo, thence to Grini concentration camp near by, and finally to sinister Sachsenhausen in Germany, where he existed for a year and a half.
As Soviet forces pushed back Nazi troops in Europe in 1944 and 1945, they liberated a number of death camps, including ...
Die Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen will mit einer neuen Ausstellung die NS-Geschichte des Lagers in Kurzfassung zeigen. Im Kontext des Ortes ein gelungener Versuch, der doch nicht die ganze Breite ...
Wer Sachsenhausen über die Alte Brücke betritt, kommt direkt in den Ortskern hinter dem Deutschordenshaus und der dazugehörigen gotischen Kirche. Im Gassengewirr, wo sich Apfelweinschenken und ...