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Berlin: Guided 4-Hour Sachsenhausen Small Group Bus Tour

4.8 / 5

66 reviews

Activity provider:Insider Tour Berlin
Guided tour

Berlin: Guided 4-Hour Sachsenhausen Small Group Bus Tour

Activity provider:Insider Tour Berlin
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From US$ 63.21 per person

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A bus ride to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial, in which your guide will be providing you with running commentary en route. After arriving to Sachsenhausen, you will learn background information on the early years of this former Nazi camp system.

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Duration 4 hours
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Live tour guide
English

Experience

Highlights
  • Drive through Oranienburg and see where the inmates would have worked
  • Visit the commandants house
  • Experience the interior of the camp, where 35,000 people died during the years of its operation
  • Explore the infirmary barracks, where experimentation took place during the war
  • Learn about the how Sachsenhausen was re-purposed by the Soviets as a special camp after World War II
Full description

Take a guided tour of the former concentration camp,Sachsenhausen and learn about the atrocities that were committed there. Discover how Germans deal with this history and learn more about what the local populations knew about the realities of this immense camp system.

 

Board a bus in central Berlin and head to Sachsenhausen, the first concentration camp that was built from the ground up to be a camp, planned and designed for maximum control. Enter the old barracks and learn about the daily lives of those imprisoned.

 

With your guide, you'll walk around the interior of Heinrich Himmler's modern and always expandable concentration camp. Visit the commandant’s house before walking through Tower A where the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" are still visible. You will also see the gas chamber, isolation cells, creatoria and punishment cells.

 

Once the tour has concluded, you will be picked up and brought back to Berlin in an air-conditioned bus to the meeting point at the Friedrichstrasse train station.

Includes
  • Tour guide
  • Transportation in air-conditioned vehicle
  • Driver
  • Sachsenhausen Memorial entry
  • €3 donation per person to the Sachsenhausen Memorial
  • Map of the former concentration camp
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

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Meeting point

You will find the coach waiting outside the train station Friedrichstrasse, on the square beside the 'Traenenpalast' (Palace of Tears).

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Know before you go

  •  Please remember to bring along a light snack and drink.
  •  Please wear weather-appropriate clothing and comfortable walking shoes.
  •  Tours will meet outside Friedrichstr. train station, on the square beside the 'Traenenpalast' (Palace of Tears), Reichstagufer 17, 10117 Berlin.

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Overall rating

4.8 /5

based on 66 reviews

Review summary

  • Guide
    4.9/5
  • Transportation
    4.8/5
  • Service
    5/5
  • Organization
    5/5

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Xavier, our guide was amazing. He was so knowledgeable and had our attention from the start. We had a few slow people on our tour, and he tried his best to keep everyone moving & yet didn't miss a thing even though he was running late. I wouod recommend going on this tour. Xavier was A++++.

May 4, 2023

It was a great tour, although a difficult one, because of the place (Sachsenhausen Memorial). The guide was amazing, told us the whole history, begginning with World War I, when we were in the bus, continuing at the visit and in the way back. As she said, it happened, it's history. Very good tour and very good guide.

April 30, 2023

Maria was a super guide and imparted so much information during the bus ride and while walking around the camp. Wish we could have had more time but alas our short holiday had come to an end. With excellent help from Maria we managed to catch our train to the airport too!!

April 22, 2023

Product ID: 218949