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Günter Morsch (Ed.)
“Tower A”
The Concentration Camp SS 1936—1945:
Excesses and Direct Perpetrators
Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen
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Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum
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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 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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SS officers in front of prisoners on the roll-call area, from left: Report Leader Hermann Campe, Block Leaders Meyer,
Menne Saathoff, Max Hohmann, Werner Krämer, Erich Schröder, Erwin Seifert
SS propaganda photo, winter 1940-41
“T-Building”
The administrative Centre of the Concen„Kommandantenhaus”
tration Camp Terror. The Concentration
Die Konzentrationslager-SS 1936-1945: Arbeitsteilige Täterschaft (in Vorbereitung)
Camps Inspectorate 1934—1945
„Turm A“
Die Konzentrationslager-SS 1936-1945: Exzess- und Direkttäter
“Tower A”
The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Excesses and Direct Perpetrators
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“Commandant’s House”
The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945. Division of Labour among the Perpetrators (in preparation)
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„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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“Commandant’s House”
The Concentration Camp SS 1936—1945:
Division of Labour among the Perpetrators (in preparation)
Die Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen verfolgt ein dezentrales
Ausstellungskonzept, das dem Besucher die Geschichte an
den authentischen Orten erfahrbar machen soll. Die konkrete
Geschichte 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 sogenanten
T-Gebäude („Die Zentrale des KZ-Terrors. Die Inspektion der
Konzentrationslager 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 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” (“The administrative Centre of the Concentration
Camp Terror. The Concentration Camps Inspectorate 1934—1945”).
„Tower A“ was the focal point of Sachsenhausen concentration camp‘s design, which embodied the
„Geometry of Total Terror“. It housed the command staff unit for the protective custody camp. This
consisted of the Camp Leader, Report Leaders and Block Leaders. Their authority over the prisoners
was absolute. In the direct perpetration of excesses, they showed brutality and cruelty, despotism
and inhumanity, to which any number of prisoners could fall victim each day.
The catalogue contains all texts and numerous illustrations from the permanent exhibition
„The Concentration Camp SS 1936-1945: Excesses and Direct Perpetrators“.
ISBN: 978-3-86331-289-3
Günter Morsch (Ed.)
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Excesses and Direct Perpetrators in
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum
The Concentration Camp SS
1936-1945:
Excesses and
Direct Perpetrators
in Sachsenhausen
Concentration Camp
SS block leader stomping on a concentration camp prisoner lying on the floor
Drawing by Ab Nicolaas (prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 1941-45),
1945
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SS man beating a prisoner
Drawing by Evžen Seyček (prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1939-42),
after 1945
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Beatings by the SS
Drawing by Ab Nicolaas (prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1941-45),
after 1945
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der Stiftung
Brandenburgische
Gedenkstätten
SS man kicking a prisoner
Drawing by Evžen Seyček (prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1939-42),
after 1945
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Prisoners in front of „Tower A“ in the command staff precinct
SS propaganda photo, February 1941
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