Wednesday 27 June 2012

The Execution Trench



The Execution Trench (indicated by the red arrow) is in a part of the Sachsenhausen camp supposedly nick-named "Station Z" by the SS, as it was the "final stop." More on Station Z, along with a comparison of how this part of the memorial has changed since 1999 can be seen on the highly authoritative scrapbookpages.
The pamphlet/map I brought in the visitor centre says: "In this trench, resistance fighters, conscientious objectors and people sentenced by the Nazis were executed."


Clearly that is a door which leads somewhere. 



How it looked in June 1945, original photo

Clearly this entrance to an underground something, now blocked up with logs, logs which show no signs of having been hit by bullets


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