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A bus ride to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial, in which your guide will be providing you with running commentary en route. After arriving to Sachsenhausen, you will learn background information on the early years of this former Nazi camp system.

Highlights

• Drive through Oranienburg and see where the inmates would have worked
• Visit the commandants house
• Experience the interior of the camp, where 35,000 people died during the years of its operation
• Explore the infirmary barracks, where experimentation took place during the war
• Learn about the how Sachsenhausen was re-purposed by the Soviets as a special camp after World War II

Description

Take a guided tour of the former concentration camp,Sachsenhausen and learn about the atrocities that were committed there. Discover how Germans deal with this history and learn more about what the local populations knew about the realities of this immense camp system.  Board a bus in central Berlin and head to Sachsenhausen, the first concentration camp that was built from the ground up to be a camp, planned and designed for maximum control. Enter the old barracks and learn about the daily lives of those imprisoned. With your guide, you'll walk around the interior of Heinrich Himmler's modern and always expandable concentration camp. Visit the commandant’s house before walking through Tower A where the words 'Arbeit Macht Frei' are still visible. You will also see the gas chamber, isolation cells, creatoria and punishment cells. Once the tour has concluded, you will be picked up and brought back to Berlin in an air-conditioned bus to the meeting point at the Friedrichstrasse train station.

Includes

Tour guide Transportation in air-conditioned vehicle Driver Sachsenhausen Memorial entry €3 donation per person to the Sachsenhausen Memorial Map of the former concentration camp

Important Information

• • Please remember to bring along a light snack and drink. • Please wear weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable walking shoes. • Tours will meet outside Friedrichstr. train station, on the square beside the 'Traenenpalast' (Palace of Tears), Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin.

Easy cancellation

Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund