NKVD special camp Nr. 7

Under the NKVD, Nazi functionaries were held in the camp, as were political prisoners and inmates sentenced by the Soviet Military Tribunal.

1, was the largest of four special camps in the Soviet occupation zone.

The 60,000 people interned over five years included 6,000 German officers transferred from Western Allied camps.

In Sachsenhausen the bodies of 12,500 victims were found, mostly children, adolescents and elderly people.

[3] By the time the camp closed in the spring of 1950, at least 12,000 had died of malnutrition and disease.