Oranienburg Concentration Camp – 1933-34
Venue
Oranienburg Concentration Camp – 1933-34
Organizer: Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen
Catalogue available.
Catalogue available.
On 21st March 1933, local SA stormtroopers took over a disused brewery in middle of the town of Oranienburg and set up the first concentration camp in the state of Prussia. Over 3,000 prisoners, mostly political opponents of the National Socialists, were humiliated and maltreated there; some of them were even murdered. The exhibition uses artwork, artefacts, documents, films and audio clips to show how tactics of public intimidation rapidly developed into a state-organised concentration camp system.
Related Topics
Concentration Camp, Resistance
