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Front cover: The „Concentration Camps Inspectorate“. View from Adolf-Hitler-Damm (now Bernauer Straße), around 1941

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Eine Ausstellung am historischen OrtAn Exhibition at the historical Site

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The Concentration Camps Inspectorate1934—1945

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In the spring of 1934, the National Socialists made all concentration camps subject to a newly created office of the SS: the „Inspectorate of Concentration Camps“ (IKL). On behalf of the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, the IKL managed 32 main camps with over 1000 satellite camps. From 1938 to the end of the war, the IKL resided in a prestigious house built by prisoners on the edge of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Oranienburg. Today, it is the most important building preserved from that era that bears witness to the masterminds behind the National Socialist terror. About 100 SS men here decided on inmates‘ food, clothing and housing, on transports to other camps and death marches, on punishments and executions, forced labour, medical experiments and mass murder. The catalogue contains all the texts and numerous illustrations from the permanent exhibition „The administrative Centre of the Concentration Camp Terror. The Concentration Camps Inspectorate 1934—1945. An exhibition at the historical site“. ISBN: 978-3-86331-252-7

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Die Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen verfolgt ein dezentralesAusstellungskonzept, das dem Besucher die Geschichte anden authentischen Orten erfahrbar machen soll. Die konkreteGeschichte des jeweiligen historischen Ortes wird als Leitidee mit einer darüber hinausweisenden thematischen Darstellung verknüpft. Außer im „Turm A“ befinden sich Ausstellungen zu Tätern des Konzentrationslagers Sachsenhausen: im ehemaligen Kommandantenhaus („Die Konzentrationslager-SS 1936-1945: Arbeitsteilige Täterschaft“, in Vorbereitung) und im sogenantenT-Gebäude („Die Zentrale des KZ-Terrors. Die Inspektion der Konzentrationslager 1934-1945“).

Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum follows a decentralized exhibitionconcept that allows the visitor to experience history in the very places where it happened. As a general principle, the history particular to each authentic location is interwoven with a presentation on a related theme, whose broader context is also examined. Apart from “Tower A”, exhibitions about perpetrators in Sachsenhausen concentration camp are located in the former Commandant‘s House (“The Concentration Camp SS, 1936-1945: Division of Labour Among the Perpetrators”, currently in preparation) and in the so-called „T-Building“ („System of Terror. The Inspectorate of Concentration Camps 1934-1945“)

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„Turm A“Die Konzentrationslager-SS 1936-1945: Exzess- und Direkttäter“Tower A”The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Excesses and Direct Perpetrators

„Kommandantenhaus”Die Konzentrationslager-SS 1936-1945: Arbeitsteilige Täterschaft (in Vorbereitung)“Commandant’s House”The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945. Division of Labour among the Perpetrators (in preparation)

„T-Gebäude”Die Zentrale des KZ-Terrors. Die Inspektion der Konzentrationslager 1934-1945“T-Building”Centre of Terror. The Concentration Camps Inspectorate 1934-1945

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Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum follows a decentralized exhibition concept that allows the visitor to experience history in the very places where it happened. As a general principle, the history particular to each authentic location is interwoven with a presentation on a related theme, whose broader context is also examined. Apart from “Tower A”, exhibitions about perpe-trators in Sachsenhausen concentration camp are located in the former Commandant‘s House (“The Concentration Camp SS, 1936—1945: Division of Labour Among the Perpetrators”, currently in preparation) and in the so-called “T-Building” (“The administrative Centre of the Concentration Camp Terror. The Concentration Camps Inspectorate 1934—1945”)

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