The SS Headquarters

SS Headquarters | 1940–45

This building housed the SS headquarters and the administration of the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp. The “political department”, the mail censorship office and the infirmary for SS members occupied the ground floor. The first floor housed the offices of the commandant and his adjutant, the SS headquarters office and other administrative offices. After the camp’s liberation in 1945, the building was used by the Soviet Army until 1977. It has served as the Memorial’s central exhibition space since 1984. The first floor currently contains the exhibitions “Ravensbrück. The Topography and History of the Women’s Concentration Camp” and “Women of Ravensbrück”.

- Historical Overview and Map. Memorial Ravensbrueck pdf

How it once looked