During our visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp it became apparent to me just how much Germany is making an effort to overcome its past. Germany has done a great job memorializing and paying tribute to the victims of the Sachsenhausen camp. There was such a wealth information there it was hard absorb it all. It was very sobering to see how a “civilized’ country could commit such atrocities. I think the German government did a very good job of preserving the site, even though many of the buildings were lost during Soviet control. I am glad to see that Germany is not trying to gloss over what happened under the Nazis, but instead is doing everything its power to make sure things like this do not happen again.