10 km with SV Empor Berlin – a walk found in the booklet “Vorschläge zum Mitwandern 2023 – Berlin-Brandenburger Wanderplan” issued by Berliner Wanderverband, available in bookstores at the cost of 3 euros.

The walk was supposed to start at 9.25, but people kept turning up after that time, completely unapologetically (“sorry I’m late” does not seem to be part of the German vocabulary), so we did not start till almost 9.45. That kind of thing irritates the sh.. out of me.

Anyway, the visit to the memorial was interesting, but the walk there had taken place at such a slow pace that I decided to leave the group afterwards and try to make my way round the northen tip of Lehnitzsee. This turned out to be impossible without going a very long way around it – the usual scandal: pedestrians only have access to a fraction of all the waterfronts in and around Berlin – and the fact that google kept pointing me in the wrong direction and could not even find the station in Lehnitz also did not help. I therefore only saw a little bit of the lake on my way back to the station in Oranienburg. For what it is worth, here is my route on MapMyWalk.

Other links: Todesmarch Sachsenhausen – Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp