Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Located in Berlin Germany

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Just outside Berlin, over 50,000 innocent victims of the Nazis perished in Sachsenhausen in conditions of appalling brutality. The camp became a training ground for the execution of the Holocaust and ultimately the center of the whole concentration camp system. After the Nazis were defeated, the Soviets turned the camp into a gulag for their own political enemies. Thousands more were to perish over the next five years.

For the SS (Schutztaffel officers). It ended up as the center of the entire concentration camp system.

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