Kamp konsentrasi Sachsenhausen
Also known as KZ Sachsenhausen, camp Sachsenhausen, Saxonhausen Concentration Camp, Sachsenhausen
Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany (1936-1945)
Key facts
- Location
- Oranienburg , Germany
- Operated by
- Schutzstaffel
- Commandant
- See list
- Operational
- July 1936 – 22 April 1945
- Inmates
- Initially German Jews and varied German citizens (divided between racial, political, "career criminal" and "antisocial" inmates), later overwhelmingly (90% by 1944) foreign forced laborers and political prisoners (mostly Polish and Soviet citizens)
- Number of inmates
- More than 200,000, including around 20,000 women
- Killed
- Tens of thousands, including at least 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war executed in late 1941
- Liberated by
- Polish Army's 2nd Infantry Division
- Notable inmates
- List of prisoners of Sachsenhausen
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website