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Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and Downtown Fürstenberg/Havel

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As I walked from the station (Fürstenberg/Havel) to the Ravensbrück Memorial, there was still some frost on the ground, so I could not resist some photos, although that did not have much to do with the theme of the day (except I could not help thinking of what probably used to fertilise the grounds ….).

The Memorial and the Camp

The view from the site of the gas chamber towards the town of Fürstenberg/Havel. So close …….

Needs no introduction

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Quoting from the memorial website:

“The company Siemens & Halske had 20 workshops constructed outside the camp’s perimeter, where prisoners were forced to work from the late summer of 1942. “

So they probably contributed to the manintenance of the grand, fenced- in, Siemens family graveyard, twice the size of my living room, in Stahnsdorf.

There is also a museum/documentation centre where you can easily spend an hour or two if you want to hear, read and see everything:

The Castle, about two km from the camp, on the outskirts of downtown Fürstenberg/Havel, no doubt with a view to the camp across the lake from the upper floors

Other impressions from Fürstenberg/Havel

The town well from the 13th century