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Path of Remembrance — Sachsenburg Concentration Camp Memorial

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Path of Remembrance — Sachsenburg Concentration Camp Memorial

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Path of Remembrance — Sachsenburg Concentration Camp Memorial

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    December 3, 2021

    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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      December 3, 2021

      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 of the political prisoners of the camp. In 1974 a memorial room was set up by the SED in the factory building used by a nationally owned twisting mill. In it, the state order of the GDR was presented as the "anti-fascist legacy" of the former political prisoners. Youth groups in particular visited the memorial and were looked after by the Sachsenburg teacher Gottfried Weber and his wife. After the end of the GDR, the exhibition in the former factory building in Sachsenburg was closed, the memorial erected in 1968 was preserved.

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        December 3, 2021

        1968 (unveiling of the OdF monument); Monument in porphyry with four standing figures (prisoners in protection), of historical importance.
        Cenotaph on two steps with an umbrella-like back wall made of porphyry tuff, inscription: “And if you don't commit your life, your life will never be won” (Friedrich Schiller), in front of it a group of four prisoners, sculptor: Hanns Diettrich (Chemnitz), unveiling of the Memorial on September 9, 1968

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