Sachsenhausen

On Saturday my distrikt traveled an hour out of Berlin to Oranienburg where a concentration camp is. It´s called Sachsenhausen. What it was, if I understood right, was not a concentration camp with the objective of killing people, but more focused on working people to death. For example, the camp would make people walk around in circles, sometimes pushing various heavy objects for hours every day. It was so sad and it was raining which actually was really fitting. I was told that this was one of the smaller concentration camps, because only 100,000 people or so died of starvation, exhaustion, diease, mistreatment, etc.

At the entrance to Sachsenhausen

The toilettes.

A painting of potatoes in the kitchen. I read that their food consisted of bread and potatoe soup. It said in the kitchen the stench from the potatoes they had to peel was so bad they could feel it in their heads.

This is the table where they would observe the dead bodies, figure out the exact cause of death, see if there was anything unusal present that wasn't there before they came... creepy, right?

This is what is left of the the cremation site. Apparently years after Sachsenhausen was finished people found very very high amounts of human ash in the roads. It appears as if they had coated the roads in human ash at one point in time because there was so much of it.

To end things on a lighter note, here are my double chocolate chip cookies I made on Friday(: