From Berlin: Guided Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour｜Germany

Join an expert guide for an in-depth visit to one of the most harrowing sites in the vicinity of Berlin: the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Tour.

Start your tour in Berlin City Center, where you will meet with your guide. After a short meet-and-greet, take a short train ride out to the town of Oranienburg, the site of the Sachsenhausen Camp Memorial.

On the way there, learn how Hitler achieved the dictatorship and how the concentration camps in their earliest incarnation were a key instrument of Nazi terror and the suppression of political opponents.

Concentration camps were a key instrument in the Nazi regime of terror, and the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was unique. The camp was the first purpose-built concentration camp within the Third Reich and the closest one to Berlin. It is also one of the most visited World War Two concentration camps.

Discover a location that is not so ingrained within the world’s consciousness - although it was an extremely important camp within the concentration camp system.

As the tour progresses, learn interesting and sobering facts like how Sachsenhausen became the nodal point of the entire concentration camp system, how the victims’ demographic changed over time, how the living conditions worsened at the camp during the war, and much more.

The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Tour includes full camp entrance and licensed guide, access to the SS and Gestapo Prison Block, infirmary building, Station Z (the purpose-built execution facility), The Camp Kitchen, Pathology Building and Mortuary, Cellar, and the Barrack Buildings Tower A (the main camp entrance).