Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp from 1936 until its liberation by the Red Army on 22 April 1945, located 35 kilometers from Berlin in the town of Oranienburg. The camp was built by prisoners in 1936, during the Olympic Games in Berlin. About 200,000 people were imprisoned in Sachsenhausen from 1939 to 1945. No reliable figures are available for the period from 1936 to 1939. Prisoners included political opponents, prisoners of war, Jews, 'anti-socials', Sinti and Roma, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses.^[1]