S3E1: Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Part 1: The History of the Camp

Spring 2025 marks the 80th Anniversary of the end of World War II. 

We're kicking off this season, focused on WWII, by discussing Ravensbrück concentration camp, the only camp purpose built for women under the Nazi regime. 

In this first of two parts, we take a look at whom this camp was built for, who ran it day to day, and how it changed dramatically over the course of it's life. We also discuss the concentration camp system more generally, contextualising it along side our knowledge as guides of the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen.

(ALSO, apologies Pip mixed up Sylvia Salvesen, who was from Norway not Sweden!)

CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of concentration camp, torture, death.

Sources:

Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women, Sarah Helm

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann

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