The Gate House

Location of the iconic gate house at Sachsenhausen

The young man in the centre wearing a red jacket and glasses, is a tour guide, an Irish one. I overheard him speak to his group several times, and happened to hear his final speech to the group above, outside the Soviet built New Museum. He told them bigotry and intolerance have not gone away, and it (i.e. the Holocaust) could happen again. I strongly suspect he is Jewish. Another guy who worked in the Visitor Information Centre was an American, and I suspect also Jewish. As Sachsenhausen is the closest camp to Berlin, it really is the "showcase camp".

The famous Arbeit Macht Frei (Work sets you free) sign, which appears at entrances to several German camp labour camps 

The Gate House, on the left and right are the "Infirmary Barracks" which now contain impressive exhibitions.

There is an underground tunnel linking the two barracks together, it's approximately where the chimneys are.

The Gate House as viewed from the Prison Yard

 There are many of these beds of stones, they mark where prisoner barracks once stood. And they must

be very new, as they do not appear on Google Earth's aerial photos of Sachsenhausen (see top of post).

The camp had been officially closed for almost 50 minutes when I took this photo. A guard, riding

his bicycle, came and found me near the old industrial yard and politely told me to get out.

Photo taken at the "Entrance to Command Headquarters and Prisoner Camp". 

The memorial had been closed over an hour by the time I took these pictures.