Holocaust: Concentration Camps - Dachau and Sachsenhausen

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History Documentary hosted by Albert Hemsing, published by Chronos-Film in 2005 - English narration

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Dachau Concentration Camp, was situated 12 miles northwest of Munich in Bavaria. Built in the early days of the Nazi regime it was one of three camps set up in 1933 to form the basis for a concentration camp system, initially filled with communist and Jewish inmates Dachau's doors were soon opened to many other "undesirables" that the Nazis wanted to eradicate. Dachau was one of the worst and most notorious death camps and the scene of hundreds of medical experiments carried out on inmates, during 1941 and 1942 over 500 horrendous operations were performed on healthy prisoners. In the last year of the war more than 40,000 prisioners perished in Dachau. Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, In Oranienburg, a small town immediately to the north of Berlin, in which one of the first unofficial concentration camps by the SA was established in 1933. The administration of the concentration camps was instituted in Sachsenhausen a district of Oranienburg since 1936. The town was home to one of the largest concentration camps in the German Reich. The construction of the camp, the day to day life in it, and the suffering of the 200,000 prisoners from many countries are the subjects of this film.