Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen
German Nazi concentration camp.

Located near the village of Sachsenhausen in northern Germany, it was established in 1936 as part of a system of camps that included Buchenwald (for central Germany) and Dachau (for southern Germany). The camp's early prisoners included 10,000 Jews rounded up from Berlin and Hamburg after the Kristallnacht raids. Of the 200,000 prisoners who went through Sachsenhausen during World War II, 100,000 died there from disease, execution, and overwork in the local armaments factories; many of the rest were transferred to other camps. See also Holocaust.

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also called  Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg 

      one of the major Nazi (Nazi Party) German concentration camps (concentration camp), located at the edge of Oranienburg, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Berlin. Sachsenhausen was established in 1936 as the northern German component of the system that would include Buchenwald (for central Germany) and Dachau (for southern Germany).

      Sachsenhausen's first great influx of prisoners began after Kristallnacht in November 1938. Some 10,000 Jews were rounded up from Berlin, Hamburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania and transported to Sachsenhausen. About 450 were murdered shortly after their arrival. At first, those who could find passage out of the country were eligible for release. The camp's inmate population fluctuated between about 11,000 and 48,000 during World War II. Of the roughly 200,000 prisoners who passed through Sachsenhausen, some 100,000 died there, mainly from disease, executions, and overwork in local armaments factories; many of the remainder were transferred to other camps. A gas chamber was added to the crematoria complex in 1943, though it was used only by a special order. In February 1945, several thousand physically debilitated prisoners were killed less than two months before the camp's evacuation. Sachsenhausen was liberated on April 27, 1945, by advance troops of the Soviet army.

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