The storm “Ylenia” partially caused the historic camp wall in the memorial of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg to collapse.
About 200 meters in length, parts of the approximately 2.80 meter high eastern camp wall, which surrounded the triangular prisoner camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, were affected, as the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation announced on Friday. The damage cannot yet be quantified, but according to estimates by an expert from the foundation’s real estate department, it is probably in the six-digit range.
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The camp wall, which was built in Nazi Germany in 1937 and has largely been preserved in its original form, was part of the security systems that surrounded the prisoner camp. According to the information, they consisted of a death strip, which the prisoners were not allowed to enter, an electrically charged fence, the guard post and the camp wall.
The wall had already been damaged several times by hurricanes in the past, it said.