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4 hours
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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.
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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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
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.
Duration: 4 hours
Comfort air-con small bus
1,550 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Lynn W,
Oct 15, 2025
- Viator
Wonderful. The trip was the perfect length. The guide was very knowledgeable. A really really good tour.
Jennifer M,
Oct 15, 2025
- Viator
The learning begins on the bus ride to the concentration camp. Along the way you get Bellrlin history, then a full blown lesson in how the natzi's carried out their wicked plan.
judy m,
Oct 12, 2025
- Viator
Our tour guide was good and friendly. He did a good job. We had fun and enjoyed. Get this tour you will love it..
PiaGry T,
Oct 12, 2025
- Viator
It was a very moving experience to see Sachsenhausen. We had a fantastic guide named Paul from Australia who had a great knowledge and a nice way to tell the somewhat harsh story.
Katerina M,
Oct 7, 2025
- Viator
We went on this tour in September. This is very dark period of the German history , and very important for others to know about it. Our guide Paul made and very engaging and interesting. He is vey knowledgeable on the subject and unbiased , which we are really like.
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