萨克森豪森

薩克森豪森
Sàkèsēn Háosēn
proper noun #32,639

Meanings

  1. 1 Sachsenhausen (Nazi concentration camp north of Berlin, operating 1936-1945)
  2. 2 Sachsenhausen (historic district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Sàkèsēnháosēn jízhōngyíng guānyā guò shùshíwàn míng qiúfàn.
The Sachsenhausen concentration camp held hundreds of thousands of prisoners.
HSK 7-9
Fǎlánkèfú de Sàkèsēnháosēn qū yǐ píngguǒ jiǔ wénmíng.
Frankfurt's Sachsenhausen district is famous for apple wine.

Tips

history
The most prominent referent in Chinese subtitles and history texts is the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp (萨克森豪森集中营) near Oranienburg, north of Berlin. It operated from 1936 to 1945 as a model camp and SS training ground; the Soviets later used the site as a special camp until 1950. Today it is a memorial.
memory
Breaks into two German parts: Sachsen (Saxony) -> 萨克森, and -hausen ("houses/settlement") -> 豪森. The same -hausen suffix shows up across German place names (Mülhausen, Schaffhausen); once you spot 豪森, expect a German town. reliably opens phonetic foreign names like 萨尔瓦多 "Salvador".

Stroke Order

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