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SachsenhausenGerman 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. Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp. [Ger. Hist.: Shirer, 375] See : Genocide How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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BERLIN -- A sculpture with the names of 96 clergy has been unveiled in rememberance of Catholic priests who died at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin. In Majdanek, there were 100,000 Polish prisoners, 40,000 in Mauthausen, 35,000 in Dachau, 30,000 in Sachsenhausen, 23,000 in Buchenwald, 16,000 in Plaschau, and 34,000 in Ravensbruck, the women's concentration camp. Trips to a sex-reassignment clinic and to the Sachsenhausen or Ravensbruck concentration camps to learn about the Nazi persecution of gays and lesbians are some of the other excursions. |
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