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Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

One of the camp's commandants was Roman Rudenko, the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. An extraordinary claim. We need something better than a sentence in an essay by Freda Utley. --Maja33 NL (talk) 06:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

I found nothing in his biography or in The Nuremberg trial by Tusa or The Nuremberg trials by Roland. Maja33 NL (talk) 12:01, 4 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

"Inmates" list in the infobox is just silly

Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It's "Political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet POWs, Poles, Jews, homosexuals, Freemasons and defectors."

In reality (offcial website: https://www.sachsenhausen-sbg.de/en/history/1936-1945-sachsenhausen-concentration-camp/):

More than 200,000 people were interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1936 and 1945. They included political opponents of the Nazi regime, members of groups declared by the Nazis to be racially or biologically inferior, such as Jews, Sinti and Roma, and people persecuted as homosexuals, as well as so-called “career criminals” and “antisocials”. Initially, the internees were predominantly German citizens, but after the outbreak of the Second World War, tens of thousands of people were deported from the occupied territories to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, including political opponents of National Socialism or of the collaborating governments, foreign forced laborers and Allied prisoners of war. In 1944, around 90% of the internees were foreigners, with citizens of the Soviet Union and Poland forming the largest groups. There were also around 20,000 women among the internees in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

What "Jehovah's Witnesses"? What "Freemasons"??? "Defectors"???????

Really: "Poles, Soviets, and others".

I updated the infobox with the museum data (also other figures). 5.173.74.169 (talk) 09:09, 30 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Karl-Otto Koch's photo album of Sachsenhausen concentration camp and some trivia

Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

A photo album of the construction phase of the concentration camp was discovered after 2000 in the archives of Moscow. I added info on about it on at Karl-Otto Koch#Photo album of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. If someone feels like adding it in this article, go ahead.

And while reading about the album, I also stumbled upon some trivia (?) regarding the architect of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. To quote the Berliner Zeitung:

Bernhard Kuiper, der Architekt des Terrorlagers, sprach später allen Ernstes davon, dass er "das schönste Konzentrationslager in Deutschland" gebaut habe. Tatsächlich legte er hier Blumenbeete vor dem tödlichen Elektrozaun an, im SS-Bereich gab es kniehohe Holzzäune und einen künstlichen See, um den kleine Findlinge gruppiert wurden.[1]

Translation:

Bernhard Kuiper, the architect of the terror camp, later said in all seriousness that he had built "the most beautiful concentration camp in Germany". In fact, he planted flowerbeds in front of the deadly electric fence; in the SS area there were knee-high wooden fences and an artificial lake around which small boulders were grouped.

Not sure whether it's worth including or not, so I'm leaving it here for your consideration. Nakonana (talk) 19:31, 2 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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