In September 1939 some 900 stateless Jews (stateless because their citizenship was revoked by the Nazis) were arrested in Berlin and placed in barracks 37, 38, 39 in Sachsenhausen. Within several months of the prisoners’ arrival at the camp, the barracks windows and doors were sealed up and the inmates were engaged in strenuous physical activity for hours on end. These tortures increased an already-high death rate in the camp.

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