Published on Feb, 2025
The tour of Sachsenhausen with Buendia Tours was absolutely brilliant and one not to be missed if you are in Berlin and interested in wartime history.
Our guide Pete was honest, thoughtful and very generous with his knowledge. He made sure that the tour was presented in a way that was both easily understandable to those with varying knowledge and sensitive to the topics being spoken about.
The tour started at Alexanderplatz and the journey to the camp took two trains (one underground, one mainline railway) and was about an hour travel in total. Be aware that you do need to purchase an ABC train ticket in advance of the tour and the tour will start promptly at the time stated on the booking so do not be late. Once we arrived at the town where the camp is situated (Oranienburg), we walked for around 15-20 minutes, stopping briefly to chat about a couple of different facts about the town. There are bathrooms situated at the visitor centre of the camp if required and the entire tour is on pretty even surfaces.
The tour itself was mainly outside, which was tricky in the cold Berlin winter, but Pete did give the option for those who wanted to stay warm to sit in the café on site and meet the rest of the group once the tour was over. He also gave the option for those wishing to stay longer at the camp to get a later train back.
Overall, the tour was informative and a great opportunity to see a camp with so much dark history behind it. I could not recommend the tour, or Pete as a guide, more.