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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was built in 1936 at Oranienburg, 35 kilometers north of Berlin. The camp was built as a Model Camp where SS guards were trained and later sent to other camps. The design of the Sachsenhausen camp was intended to be a model for other camps to be built in the coming years. The office for Concentration Camp Inspection, which supervised all the camps in the Nazi system, was at first located in Berlin, but was moved to Oranienburg in 1938, thus giving the Sachsenhausen camp a special status. According to the Museum at Sachsenhausen, there were 200,000 prisoners held there by the Nazis and 100,000 of them were murdered.
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