Day: May 9, 2025

Day 4 – 2025 Holocaust Studies Tour

Separation, Persecution, Exploitation, Warehousing… Today we traveled to the northern most point the Berlin rail pass would take us, Oranienburg. Here is where one of the first concentration camps created by the National Socialists was built and operated, Sachsenhausen. While the eyes of the world were focused on the 1936 Olympic games, taking place only a few miles to the south, the form and function of this massive instrument of horror was taking shape. As we explored the various spaces and exhibits it contained, we learned how this modern tool of social control formed and adapted to the developing and

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