SACHSENHAUSEN CONTEMPORARY PRINTED CAMP PLAN, LIKELY USED ON SITE BY SS PERSONNEL Very rare printed map of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 22" x 16 1/2", tiled at top: Plan of the Area of the SS Troops and Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen". The map is an area view of the triangle-shaped camp showing all structures, administration buildings, assembly areas, guards' barracks, towers, industrial area, etc. Of particular interest is a 3 1/2" x 4" original typed legend pasted at upper right which offers a quick reference to 12 printed numbers appearing on the map. The legend is headed: "Legend Current [as of] 1944" and lists locations shown on the map including: "Disinfection Barracks...Punishment Detail...Exile Buildings...Blocks 38 and 39 [Jewish barracks]...Workshop...", etc. Tears with a very small bit of paper loss at one marginal location, else very good. Clearly judging by the map references, this plan would have been of use only to SS guards and officers. Sachsenhausen was used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the war. 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. due to the poor living conditions. Many were executed or died as the result of brutal medical experimentation the results of which were applied to develop techniques for mass extermination.