The first concentration camp, established in Souther Germany in 1933.
The "model" camp located outside Munich, Germany. It opened in March 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. Initially, it held Communists and other political prisoners.
First concentration camp, established in March 1933 near Munich, Germany. At first Dachau held only political opponents, but over time, more and more groups were imprisoned there. Thousands died at Dachau from starvation, maltreatment, and disease.
Large concentration camp located in Germany, near Munich, where prisoners were kept for slave labor and medical experiments. It also housed facilities for mass murder and cremation. Map of Concentration Camps.
U.S. troops liberated the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945 and discovered evidence of gruesome medical experiments.
First concentration camp, established in March, 1933 near Munich, Germany. At first Dachau held only political prisoners, but over time, more and more groups were imprisoned there. Deaths at Dachau occurred through torture, starvation, disease, and overwork on a minimal diet.
Nazi concentration camp in southern Germany. Erected in 1933, this was the first Nazi concentration camp. Used mainly to incarcerate German political prisoners until late 1938, whereupon large numbers of Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and other supposed enemies of the state and anti-social elements were sent as well. Nazi doctors and scientists used many prisoners at Dachau as guinea pigs for experiments. Dachau was liberated by American troops in April 1945.
The first concentration camp opened by the Nazis in 1933 near Munich, Germany. It served as a camp to concentrate political opponents of the Third Reich, democratic supporters of the Weimar Republic, Socialist, Communists and others who were mainly non-Jews.
The first durable concentration camp, near Munich, Germany, opened in late March 1933. At first, political opponents were interned in Dachau. Gradually more groups were incarcerated there. In Dachau, there was no mass extermination program, but out of a total of 206,206 registered prisoners, there were 31,591 registered deaths. However, the total number of deaths in Dachau, including victims of individual and mass executions and death marches, will never be fully known. On April 29, 1945, the camp was liberated by units of the U.S. Seventh Army.
Dachau is a town in Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people working in Munich with roughly 40,000 inhabitants.
Dachau is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Fürstenfeldbruck, Aichach-Friedberg, Pfaffenhofen, Freising and Munich, and by the city of Munich.