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So-called "literal" so-called "translation"

I have deleted the knee-jerk "literal translation" of the place name. The next person who thinks of restoring it might consider what Grimms' dictionary says about "haus": "7) der begriff des hauses als gebäude tritt zurück und die stätte wo das haus steht, hervor; es bedeutet heimatlicher ort, gegend, land wo man ein heimwesen hat oder wo man her ist" (http://woerterbuchnetz.de/cgi-bin/WBNetz/wbgui_py?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GH03949#XGH03949). Wegesrand (talk) 11:34, 28 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Post war

One of the camp's commandants was Roman Rudenko, the Soviet Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. An extraordinary claim. We need something better than a sentence in an essay by Freda Utley. --Maja33 NL (talk) 06:29, 3 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I found nothing in his biography or in The Nuremberg trial by Tusa or The Nuremberg trials by Roland. Maja33 NL (talk) 12:01, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Inmates" list in the infobox is just silly

It's "Political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet POWs, Poles, Jews, homosexuals, Freemasons and defectors."

In reality (offcial website: https://www.sachsenhausen-sbg.de/en/history/1936-1945-sachsenhausen-concentration-camp/):

More than 200,000 people were interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1936 and 1945. They included political opponents of the Nazi regime, members of groups declared by the Nazis to be racially or biologically inferior, such as Jews, Sinti and Roma, and people persecuted as homosexuals, as well as so-called “career criminals” and “antisocials”. Initially, the internees were predominantly German citizens, but after the outbreak of the Second World War, tens of thousands of people were deported from the occupied territories to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, including political opponents of National Socialism or of the collaborating governments, foreign forced laborers and Allied prisoners of war. In 1944, around 90% of the internees were foreigners, with citizens of the Soviet Union and Poland forming the largest groups. There were also around 20,000 women among the internees in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

What "Jehovah's Witnesses"? What "Freemasons"??? "Defectors"???????

Really: "Poles, Soviets, and others".

I updated the infobox with the museum data (also other figures). 5.173.74.169 (talk) 09:09, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]