If your visit to Berlin would coincide with your history tendency you may think about including concentration camps into your schedule. Germany has a long and very checkered history and anyone who will visit these sites will have a wonderful travel lesson. This page will list some concentration camps near Berlin that one could visit and expand the information on what took place during World War II.

1. Concentration camp is Sachsenhausen Camp.

Sachsenhausen is one of the oldest concentration camps that was built by the Nazis and it is situated a little off from Berlin. This camp was also followed by other camps which also held political foes, academicians and other entities of confinement. Today, there is a camp and a monument that attracts tourists to the memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust. Check the terrain in the area, the living quarters, and other areas such as those used to detain the prisoners, or the killing field.

2. Ravenbrück: Concentration Camp

Located approximately eight zero-kilometre north of Berlin, Ravensbrück was the largest camp that was initially established exclusively for women. First conceived to confine female political prisoners, then hold Jewish and other female prisoners, Ravensbrück was a place of great horrors. About the museum The museum organizes exhibitions and guided tours for giving tribute to the victims and highlighting the existence of those detained and most of them killed at the camp.

3. Camp of Concentration on Buchenwald

Although Buchenwald is not very near Berlin, by rail one will be able to get there in few hours. The camp developed near Weimar imprisoned political detainees, Jehovah’s Witnesses along with other prisoners of this category and Jews. Now a memorial to inform the visitors about the ill past of the camp, now, the Buchenwald is a monument Sakura has guided tours, exhibit on the Holocaust and a documentation centre to help the tourists understand the den.

4. Museum of Memorial Sachsenhausen

In order to pay respect to the victims of this very Horror camp, the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum otherwise known as the Memorial Sachsenhausen is located in Oranienburg, a town just slightly out of Berlin and gives visitors a glimpse of the history of the camp and a view of the general life of the confinement. It is expressed by sites, the reconstructed buildings, and an exhibit that provides an outlined overview of the running of the camp and prisoners.

At last

should be able to have a rather dark and an important visit to the incarceration centers around Berlin. These sites are continuously standing as evidence of the atrocites performed in World War II and the Holocaust. Studying these camps and museums will enable you to pay a respect to the victims, review the tragic page in the history and guarantee that it will not be repeated.