What was the biggest concentration camp in Germany?

What was the biggest concentration camp in Germany?

Auschwitz
KL Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives here.

What is the closest concentration camp to Frankfurt?

Buchenwald
Buchenwald is definately the nearest Concentration Camp. It’s easy to reach by public transport from Frankfurt. Trains run every 2 hours, it takes you 2:43 (within the bus journey to the memorial).

Where is the Sachsenhausen concentration camp?

The SS established the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as the principal concentration camp for the Berlin area. Located near Oranienburg, north of Berlin, the Sachsenhausen camp opened on July 12, 1936, when the SS transferred 50 prisoners from the Esterwegen concentration camp to begin construction of the camp.

What were the worst concentration camps in Germany?

Death toll

Camp	Estimated deaths	Occupied territory
Auschwitz–Birkenau	1,100,000	Province of Upper Silesia
Treblinka	800,000	General Government district
Bełżec	600,000	General Government district
Chełmno	320,000	District of Reichsgau Wartheland

What does Sachsenhausen mean in English?

Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) is a district of the town Oranienburg, 35 kilometres north of Berlin. The district’s name means ‘Houses of the Saxons’. It was notorious as the site of the Nazi concentration camp also called Sachsenhausen which ran from 1936 to 1945.

How big is Sachsenhausen?

NKVD special camp Nr. 7 By 1948, Sachsenhausen, now renamed “Special Camp No. 1”, was the largest of three special camps in the Soviet Occupation Zone. The 60,000 people interned over five years included 6,000 German officers transferred from Western Allied camps.