They were most likely foreign forced labourers, and at least several hundred of them were shot following the orders of the Gestapo. At the end of the war, the SS brought people under this designation to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp they were marked by black crosses on their faces. Among them is the photography of a so-called looter. First, there are photos from the political prisoners’ section of the camp on display which a Norwegian prisoner was able to smuggle out of the camp. Numerous exhibits from the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp are displayed, some of them in large format for example, the original gallows, the death cart, the wooden horse used for beatings as well as furniture from the prisoner barracks. Günter Hipfel, was responsible for the restoration of the building built in 1936/37, in line with regulations concerning historical monuments. The Berlin architect and building historian, Dr. It is also one of the most important restoration activities in the context of the decentralised museum concept for the redesign of the memorial site. The presentation designed by the HG Merz Architekten und Museumsgestalter Firm (Stuttgart/Berlin) in the former prisoner kitchen, is the eleventh of a total of thirteen planned permanent exhibitions. They are ordered into four themes – “Organisation and Construction of the Camp”, “Prisoner Society”, “Living Conditions in the Camp and Forced Labour”, “Violence, Terror and Death” – and provide a condensed chronology of the founding of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in the Summer of 1936 up until the death marches and the liberation in April 1945.
These events are used as examples in order to retrace the development of the camp. 51 main events out of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp’s history are illuminated in the exhibition in the former prisoner’s kitchen.
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