Museumsportal Berlin

Only a few hundred metres away from today's memorial site, there stands the building that, between 1938 and 1945, housed the administrative headquarters of the entire concentration camp system. The men who sat behind desks in the Inspectorate played a significant part in planning and perpetrating crimes against humanity. It was they who determined conditions of imprisonment, coordinated forced labour and organised mass murder. The exhibition is in a room which has remained largely unaltered since it served as the bureau for the head of the entire concentration camp system.