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The Concentration Camp SS 1936–1945: Division of Labour among the Perpetrators in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp An exhibition at the historical site

Sachsenhausen. The 'concentration camp by the Reich capital': Formation and development

The catalogue contains all texts and numerous illustrations from the permanent exhibition „The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Excesses and Direct Perpetrators“.

In the spring of 1934, the National Socialists made all concentrations camps subject to a newly created office of the SS: the "Inspectorate of Concentration Camps" (IKL). On behalf of the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, the IKL managed 32 main camps with over 1000 satellite camps. From 1938 to the end of the war, the IKL resided in a prestigious house built by prisoners on the edge of Sachsenhausen Cencentration Camp in Oranienburg. Today, it is the most imoportant building preserved from that era that bears witness to the masterminds behind the National Socialist terror. About 100 SS men here decided on immates' food, clothing and housing, on transports to other camps and death marches, on punishments and executions, forced labour, medical experiments and mass murder

The exhibition in the building that once contained the prisoners’ kitchen is the last major permanent exhibition to be completed in the course of remodelling Sachsenhausen Memorial. Located near the middle of the memorial site, it functions to a certain extent as a referrer to the other twelve exhibitions at the Memorial. The exhibition also offers a compact overview of selected parts of the camp’s history. It examines important events and periods such as the camp’s establishment in 1936, the mass internments in 1938, changes with the outbreak of war in 1939, the mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war in 1941, the creation of satellite camps beginning in 1942, and the final phase, with mass murders, the death marches and, at last, liberation. The sections of the exhibition are arranged so as to create a pattern of events within the display space, thus revealing interrelationships, as well as constants and changes, in the development of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.

Überlebende der Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück und Sachsenhausen in der europäischen Nachkriegspolitik