Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Bus Tour in English from Berlin
Overview
Available languages
4 hours
Mobile ticket
Experience a profound and moving journey with this private, modern, air-conditioned bus tour to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial. Accompanied by a professional, English-speaking guide, you’ll receive insightful commentary during the journey, providing essential historical context about the early years of the Nazi camp system.
Sachsenhausen, purpose-built in 1936, was the first concentration camp engineered to control and intimidate prisoners with chilling precision. Walk through the haunting remnants of this site and explore the old barracks, where the harrowing realities of daily life included forced labor, starvation, disease, torture, and death.
Visit the execution pit, a grim reminder of the unspeakable brutality endured by prisoners, where many were gassed, shot, or hanged by the SS guards. Continue through the small prison, pathology center, and infirmary, where inhumane experiments and murders took place, bearing witness to a dark chapter of human history.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Not recommended for individuals with limited mobility or walking impairments.
IMPORTANT: Please be at our meeting point 15 mins before tour departure time.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Return trip back to the centre of Berlin
Licensed guide trained by memorial authority
Group tour of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial
Driver
Air-conditioned vehicle
€3.00 donation per person to the Sachsenhausen memorial
Entry into Sachsenhausen Memorial
Gratuities
Hotel pickup/drop off
Food and drinks- please bring snacks and a drink with you
What To Expect
Gedenkstatte und Museum Sachsenhausen
Meet us at Friedrichstrasse station, where you will board our hired coach to reach Oranienburg. Along the way, our guide will introduce Sachsenhausen, show you where the inmates would have worked in Oranienburg, and you'll learn more about what the local populations knew about the realities of the immense camp system. With our guide, you'll walk around the interior of Heinrich Himmmler's, new, modern always expandable Concentration camp. Visit the commandants house, then walk through tower A where the iconic words can still be seen on the gate today "ARBEIT MACHT FREI". Experience the interior of the camp, where 35,000 people died during the years of its operation between 1936-45. Explore the infirmary barracks, where experimentation took place during the war. Learn about the how Sachsenhausen was re-purposed by the Soviets as a special camp after the World War 2, where an additional 12,500 died after the war, and hear what life was like for the inmates during the years of 1945-1950. Once the tour has concluded you will be picked up and brought back to Berlin in an air-conditioned bus to our West meeting point at Friedrichstraße station, where our guide will be happy to answer any and all questions you may have about your stay in Berlin.
Options
SH by Bus 2023
Duration: 4 hours
Comfort air-con small bus
Reviews
1,446 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
A glimpse of the evil humanity is capable of
Oscar L,
Sep 28, 2025
- Viator
5.00It is an excellent and sobering experience. You will leave much more knowledgeable than you came. It is honest, truthful and frank discussion of what occurred and how/why it occurred. Nikolai does a factful recounting of the history of the camp, lives and deaths of the incarcerated. He sticks to the facts, and he lets the facts paint the picture of the inhumanity that occurred here. It decribes a time and place when humanity when mad, and it stands as a reminder of the cruelty man is capable of; so people don’t forget, so hopefully it never happens again.
You Leave Different Than You Arrived
Sean C,
Sep 26, 2025
- Viator
5.00Basically, this was such an incredible and emotional tour. We stepped into the depths of hell where people were tortured and killed - it’s a reminder of our darkest period of modern humankind and the countless lives that were lost at the hands of the Natzi regime and hate. This is for all people who want to learn about the horrific past of concentration camps - and bring tissues. You stand where they stand. You see where they were shot. You see flowers growing where their unnamed ashes lie. You take a journey down a path the resurfaces the stories of so many lives who were once wiped from existence simply for existing differently. Their memory, their stories live on through this tour.
A fantastic guide a tour...
France L,
Sep 25, 2025
- Viator
5.00A fantastic guide a tour that will remain with me forever. Commendable that Germans keep records of the crimes commi
See rhe parallels between the 1930s and today
Michael Z,
Sep 25, 2025
- Viator
5.00What a moving experience. We had an absolutely wonderful and knowledgeable tour guide Tina from Insider Tours. She was just so fantastic.
Thoughtful and insightful tour
Amy C,
Sep 24, 2025
- Viator
5.00Joseph was gave the most thoughtful and insightful tour of this very tragic memorial. He presented several important perspectives of the lives of people living both in and around the camp. He was very sensitive in his presentation and would highly recommend anyone I know to take this tour with Joseph.
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