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10 unusual facts about Sachsenhausen concentration camp


Casey Siemaszko

The son of a Polish Roman Catholic in the Polish Underground who survived the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Siemaszko narrated the 1998 feature, The Polish-Americans.

Galina Dzhugashvili

Historians have traditionally maintained that he was captured by the Germans in 1941 and died at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1943 after Stalin declined to exchange him for the captured German general Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus.

Hans Koschnick

He was charged with high treason for having organized a May Day rally and made a speech and was sent to a zuchthaus and then Sachsenhausen concentration camp, before being released "on leave" in 1938.

Jean-Pierre Renouard

His brother Jacques, died at age 20, on the 31st of December 1944 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.

Kazimierz Andrzej Jaworski

During WWII, he taught underground classes, was eventually arrested and imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Nils Langhelle

He was arrested on 29 January 1943 and imprisoned in Grini concentration camp from May to December 1943, then in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until the end of World War II.

Sachsenhausen

Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a detention and extermination facility (1936-1945) in Oranienburg, Brandenburg.

Sund, Norway

Reichskommissar Josef Terboven ordered the Gestapo to retaliate, burning all buildings in the village, executing or sending the men to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and imprisoning the women and children for two years.

Telavåg

All men in the village were either executed or sent to the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen.

Ursula Levy

Her father and uncle were arrested and later imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.


Bernhard Bästlein

Despite the fact that the case was closed, Bästlein was sent to the concentration camp in Esterwegen and in 1936, to Sachsenhausen, where he met Robert Abshagen, Franz Jacob, Julius Leber, Harry Naujoks, Wilhelm Guddorf and Martin Weise.

Gustav Sorge

Gustav Hermann Sorge (April 24, 1911, Rydzyna, Silesia – 1978, Rheinbach, prison), nicknamed "Der eiserne Gustav" (The Iron Gustav) for his brutality, was an SS-Hauptscharführer and a guard at Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emsland region of Germany prior to being assigned to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Hans Hüttig

After his spell at Buchenwald Hüttig saw service at Sachsenhausen concentration camp and Flossenbürg concentration camp and in both garnered a reputation as a troubleshooter who was suitable for special tasks.

Hermann Florstedt

Born in Bitche, Lorraine near the German border, Florstedt had served first during World War II at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1940 till 1942.

The Starr Affair

Subsequently captured, tortured and imprisoned in Fresnes prison, at 84 Avenue Foch and in Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps.

Theodor Szehinskyj

He was allegedly involved in the transport of prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Mauthausen concentration camp shortly before the war ended in 1945.