Memento mori

Source: Jörg Hempel

Sachsenhausen was Nazi Germany's first concentration camp and went on to become a Soviet prison. Today, it is the site of a museum devoted to its post-war incarnation. So how does Schneider + Schumacher's building address this terrible history?

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