The Sachsenburg concentration camp is one of the first to be built in 1933 after Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP came to power. It is smaller and less known than later concentration camps such as Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, but it had a preparatory effect on the establishment of the subsequent concentration and extermination camps. In Sachsenburg, the National Socialist terror began with oppression, inhumanity and torture.

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After the Second World War, memorials were erected on the former site of the Sachsenburg concentration camp. To this day, a red triangle in the Sachsenburg coat of arms reminds …

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The Sachsenburg concentration camp was one of the early National Socialist concentration camps. It existed in Sachsenburg from May 1933 to August 1937 and was the only concentration camp in Saxony from 1934. The camp is considered to be the link between the early concentration camps and the later concentration camp system as well as an experimental field and training facility for the camp SS.

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