Sachsenhausen was a
concentration camp in
Germany, operating between
1936 and
1950. It was named after the Sachsenhausen quarter, part of the town of
Oranienburg. The camp is sometimes referred to as Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg. From
1936 to
1945 it was run by the National Socialist regime in Germany as a camp for mainly political prisoners, from 1945 to spring of
1950 it was run by the
Stalinist Soviet occupying forces as "Special Camp No. 7" for mainly political prisoners.
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