When was Sachsenhausen concentration camp built?

Sachsenhausen concentration camp was built in the summer of 1936 by internees from the camps in the Emsland region. It was the first new concentration camp to be established following the appointment of Reich Leader SS Heinrich Himmler as the Chief of the German Police in July 1936.

Who was interned in Sachsenhausen?

By 1948, Sachsenhausen, now renamed “Special Camp No. 1”, was the largest of three special camps in the Soviet Occupation Zone. The 60,000 people interned over five years included 6,000 German officers transferred from Western Allied camps. Others were Nazi functionaries, anti-Communists and Russians, including Nazi collaborators.

What are some good books about the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?

ISBN 978-0-316-28840-8. Grant W. Grams: The Story of Josef Lainck: From German Emigrant to Alien Convict and Deported Criminal to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Inmate, in Ibrahim Sirkeci (ed.), Border Crossing, 2020. Finn, Gerhard (1988). Sachsenhausen 1936–1950 : Geschichte eines Lagers.

What was the purpose of Sachsenhausen?

Sachsenhausen was a labor camp outfitted with several subcamps, a gas chamber, and a medical experimentation area. Prisoners were treated harshly, fed sparingly, and killed openly. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used by the NKVD as NKVD special camp Nr. 7.