I took the building called “station Z”. It has existed since the time of camp. This was taken out of service in 1943. As well as 4 cremation ovens, there were a gas chamber and a firing squad execution oven. You can see the parts of those rooms used for extermination inside the building. This building was blown up by the KVP (militarized people’s police) of East Germany in 1952 and 1953. It was only in the course of constructing the national memorial in 1961 that architects were able to secure the remains of them. On the wall in front of this building, there is a comment that is the most impressive to me;
“And I know one thing more: that the Europe of the future doesn’t exist without commemorating all those, regardless of their nationality, who were killed at that time with complete contempt and hate, who were tortured to death, scarred, gassed… ( Andrzej Szczypiorski, Prisoner of Sachsenhausen Concentration )”
We cannot change what we did, but we can fix our future by learning our mistakes.
ICHIRO NISHII
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