Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial Walking Tour

Berlin, Germany

For a walking tour with a difference, head north of Berlin for a tour into the past at Sachsenhausen, one of the main concentration camps in Nazi Germany. While you walk, you'll learn the story of the camp, providing an essential background to Germany's past and present. This is one tour you'll remember vividly for years to come.

While the Nazis were hosting the 1936 Olympic games, slave laborers were being forced to build a huge new concentration camp just north of Berlin, intended to hold political 'enemies' of the Nazi regime political, racial and 'asocial'. Of the 200,000 people interned, over 50,000 lost their lives before the camp was liberated by the Soviets in 1945.

The camp was then used by the Soviets until 1950 to detain former Nazis, German soldiers and political opponents of the communists. Many thousands more died from malnutrition and disease.

The key to this walking tour is the informative and illuminating narrative provided by your expert tour guide. During your 3-hour visit to the camp you'll learn important background history of the site as you walk through the Appellplatz parade ground, the Jewish Barrack, punishment cells, execution grounds and crematorium, Station Z, the Pathology Laboratory and camp hospital.

This tour was researched by historian Gabriel Fawcett, who is publishing an important witness account of the camp. All tour guides have their own special insights into the history of Sachsenhausen, and are experienced in unraveling the complex history of the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

USD $19.09

Traveler Reviews

Review by: Simon P	April 2012
A very informative and respectful tour. The guide was perfect, couldn't ask for more. Would recommend this tour to anyone.

Review by: Anita S	April 2012
Very good and sobering to learn what happened here!! Lots of information and a great day all around!!!

Review by: April K	April 2012
Very educational and incredibly eye-opening. This tour was conducted by Torben and I must say he was absolutely excellent. A really intelligent and rapporable character, he ensured that his audience were fully engaged and enjoyed themselves. I would recommend this tour to anyone visiting Berlin.

Review by: fernando v	April 2012
this tour is really moving, you cant help but feel sad when walking through that front gate.

Review by: Mary B	April 2012
Very enlightening tour. Guide meets you at a central point and accompanies you on the trip. You need a degree of mobility - anybody who has mobility limitations this may not be the tour for you. Guide very informative.

Review by: Linda M	April 2012
This was one of the highlights of our trip to Berlin. Our guide was an excellent and very knowledgeable guide and made it enjoyable as well as educational. I would highly recommend this trip!! It was thought provoking and the displays really brought home the way the camp was run as well as treatment and daily lives of the prisoners. I would say this is a "must see" when in the Berlin area.

Review by: Melinda E	April 2012
It was a great experience, our guide Flynn was very knowledgeable and was able to not only tell us what we needed to know but also suited the tour to our interests and keep us engaged. It was not as confronting as I had imagined but would recommend taking the time to go there for the experience. It was also a competitive price with what the other tour groups in Berlin had to offer.

Review by: Matthew B	March 2012
My tour guide was Carlos. He was deeply knowledgable of the camp and the entire history leading up to its use. What really stood out about Carlos was his ability to be with us and shed light on any facet of the camp we had questions about in a reflective, knowledgeable and honest manner. I was great full to take this tour under his direction.

Review by: Shermann D	March 2012
Very moving, very emotional day, Finn our guide had so much knowledge and knew when to leave us with our own thoughts. Everyone should be educated on this despicable camp.

Review by: ALEX W	February 2012
Worthwhile tour. I have also been to Dachau Concentration Camp, and this one is quite a different experience. Good guide. Spends majority of time looking at actual camp and buildings rather than the museum/s, which is good.

Review by: Natalie W	January 2012
Fantastic moving experience. Our guide had extensive knowledge of the camp and the area.

Review by: Amelia C	January 2012
The tour was excellent in as much as the guide provided a lot of information and was always very interesting. However, I think a little more prior information of what the tour involves would be useful. I mean that there was a lot of walking and I had recently recovered from an accident so found it tough going at the end. We were also standing outside in the cold for a long time and I think everyone was tired and very hungry by the end so maybe the tour could end a little earlier (even with the guide still talking to us if necessary outside the gates as he did before we entered) so we can stop and eat and rest before the walk back to the station.

Review by: Judith S	January 2012
Despite the unpleasant weather we found this trip very worthwhile and would not hesitate to recommend to anyone wanting to know more about this aspect of modern German history

Review by: Stuart G	January 2012
A very, very interesting visit with a superb guide (Carlos) who was very informative and thought provoking. Excellent.

Review by: justcase1	December 2011
It was the best tour I have ever been on. I forgot the gentleman's name who was our guide he was from Ireland but most importantly he was amazing he answered any questions you had as well as explained additional information. I would recommend this tour to anyone.

Review by: dwalsh	December 2011
The visit to the Sachsenhausen Camp was excellent as for our guide Carlos he made the trip with his indepth knowledge not only about the camp but the historical events surrounding the camp . I highly recommend Carlos as a guide.

Review by: Laura K	December 2011
I think this is really worth doing if you're in Berlin for a few days. The tour company were brilliant and easy to find outside the Zoo Garten train station, they have an board setup with a rep there all day. Our guide Nicholai was very clued up and a nice guy. I don't recommend this for small kids or babies though. Someone on our tour brought their toddler and he just cried and was bored most of the day. When we arrived there the temperature dropped and there was strong howling winds which added to the sense of misery that the poor people imprisoned their must have felt. A very sobering experience.

Review by: Alex A	November 2011
I rated the trip very highly with a very informative guide. He was willing and more than able to answer any questions that came up.

Review by: Maryeve L	November 2011
very good day trip. the guide was excellent and very interesting

Review by: caroline u	November 2011
A really good tour, David was interesting and knowledgeable. I would recommend.

Review by: Rick	November 2011
This was a very informative tour and the guide, Finn Ballard, was top-notch - we learned so much! My only complaint would be the very long walk from the train to the Camp.

Review by: Lauren T	November 2011
I learned so much on the tour. Toben was an amazing guide - He knew the history of the camp inside and out. I have done three Viator tours in Munich and 2 in Berlin and I would highly recommend them!

Review by: Stephen P	November 2011
Excellent tour, guide was very knowledgeable and his commentary was very good.

Review by: John L	October 2011
Great guide, excellent knowledge, well cared for by guide, quite impressed

Review by: karen	October 2011
Great tour very informative. Price was good also. Easy to find.

Review by: Arthur L. S	October 2011
very informative tour. Guide really took his time to explain details. Very grateful for waiting for entire family of 8

Review by: Victor L	October 2011
Excellent tour with an excellent guide who was passionate about his job and shared his very sound knowledge of the history of the site to make it a memorable visit. Highly recommended.

Review by: Henrik M	October 2011
This was our first experience with Viator and definitely not the last. Our guide Carlos was deep in to the subject and well-spoken. It was very informative. To sum it up it was an amazing experience. Would we recommend the walking tour to others? Indeed we would, who wouldn't?

Review by: JOEL D	October 2011
It was good, and well run. We knew what we were signing up for when we booked this tour, after all it was a concentration camp. But it was very depressing and I pretty much came out of there hating society. although this had nothing to do with our tour leader!! My only thing would be we would have liked a bit more explanation, break things down a bit. We got a bit lost being we didnt really know all that much abotu WW2, and the subsequent break of Berlin/Germany etc. Oh and there is no where to buy food or drinks out there so make sure you prepared for that!

Review by: Brian F	October 2011
This was an excellent experience. It was my last day in Berlin and it was the highlight of my visit. I would recommend this to anyone. Flynn was an excellent guide who answered everyone's questions.

Review by: Dana	September 2011
Our guide was so in touch with the history. This made our experience here even better. Very powerful

Review by: Suzy J	September 2011
Amazing, had a really good guide who knew a lot of information. Would definitely recommend this to anyone.

Review by: Holly P	August 2011
Our tour guide, David, was fantastic and really made the trip worthwhile. I will definitely recommend this trip to others.

Review by: John Q	August 2011
Great tour! Tour guide, David, did a great job with all historical accounts of the times. I would not have done the tour on my own.

Review by: Rasika U	August 2011
You're better off doing this on your own. The entry to this camp is free and there are some guided tours available or you could get the audio guide for a small fee. Our tour guide was too fast and we didn't have much time to take pictures or read the descriptions.

Review by: Karen C	August 2011
LOVED Arja! She was so awesome and funny...We had her on two tours and she was so informative

Review by: Erin B	August 2011
Despite the somber subject matter, the tour was very informative and well done. Arja did a fabulous job and is a great speaker!

Review by: Helen Joy P	August 2011
excellent day one of the best tours i have been on

Review by: Martin H	August 2011
Our tour guide was a qualified historian which gave us a nuanced, very insightful and in-depth picture of the unimaginable atrocities that went on there. I would without doubt recommend this tour (and hope you get the same guide)

Review by: Heather G	August 2011
Fantastic tour, Carlos the tour guide was brillant, really knew his history. Always explaining and concerned that everyone understood, so helpful to everyone after the tour making sure everyone knew how to get to there hotels. This tour is fantastic, and if you get Carlos that is a hugh bonus.

Review by: Anonymous, United Kingdom	July 2010
We were met on time. The tour was very informative and extremely efficiently run.

Review by: James W, United Kingdom	June 2010
Guide very good and informative on this tour.Well worth doing.

Review by: Suzanne B, Australia	June 2010
The tour was very eductional and the tour leader very knowledgable. A must do for anyone interested in the Holocaust.

Review by: Glenn G, New Zealand	June 2010
This way an amazing day for us. Our guide Joe was the very best. He gave us a life time long memory for our holiday. I would very highly recommend this trip to anyone I spoke to. It took nearly the hold day with getting there and seeing the lovely scenery on the way and now we have a wonderful insight of what has happened in history. Many thanks

Review by: Susan W, Canada	May 2010
We were very impressed with our guide for the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp tour. Torgen was extremely knowledgeable and provided a respectful and nuanced historical account of the camp and memorial. We learned a great deal--and congratulate Viator for a hiring a guide with such a rich background--and also the ability to share his knowledge and insights.

Review by: Elliot W, United Kingdom	May 2010
The tour was fantastic and the guide was even better.

Review by: Jessica C, United Kingdom	May 2010
I was so impreessed with the quality of the tour. The tour guide was interested and obviously passionate about his subject. It was very well organised, which all helped to make the trip an all round excellent experience. However, I would suggest that the sign for the meeting point be bigger and clearer, as trying to spot a badge was quite difficult, and the meeting point sign was quite small.

Review by: Paula H, Ireland	April 2010
This trip is for anyone who is interested in history, a real eye opener. If you are in Berlin you must not miss this.

Review by: susanna b, United Kingdom	April 2010
Our guide was entertaining and informative

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	April 2010
This was a great experience and good value for the money. I enjoyed it.