Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May. It mainly held poli
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, 19 December 1938
Main entrance
Photo of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, by the Royal Air Force, dated 1943. Exact date of photo is unknown.
If a prisoner stepped inside or beyond the neutral zone they were immediately executed.
Herschel Grynszpan
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Herschel Feibel Grynszpan was a Polish-Jewish expatriate born and raised in Weimar Germany who shot the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7, 1938 in Paris. The Nazis used this assassinat
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
…May. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin's oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili; assassin Herschel Grynszpan; Paul Reynaud, the penultimate prime minister of the French Third Republic; Francisco Largo Caballero, prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic…
Grynszpan after his arrest, 1938
Grynszpan after his arrest by French police
Memorial for Herschel and his sister, Esther, at their last residence in Hanover