Concentration Camp Dachau Memorial Site (Dachau)

Germany / Bayern / Hebertshausen / Dachau
 monument, place with historical importance, Holocaust, concentration camp

Site of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau 1933-1945 before and during World War II. This was the first permanent concentration camp in the Third Reich, established less than two months after Adolf Hitler had assumed power as Chancellor of Germany on 30 January, 1933. It functioned mainly as a holding camp for political opponents and other "undesirables"

Over its twelve years as a concentration camp, the Dachau administration recorded the intake of 206,206 prisoners and 31,951 deaths. Crematoria were constructed to dispose of the deceased. These numbers do not tell the entire story, however. Although there is no evidence of mass murder within the camp itself by other methods than poor sanitation, deprivation of medical care, withholding of nutrients, medical experiments, and beatings and shootings for infractions of the rules or at random, beginning in 1942 more than 3166 prisoners in weakened condition were transported to Hartheim Castle near Linz and there were executed by poison gas for reason of their unfitness. In 1941 and 1942 an unknown number of prisoners of war from the Soviet Union were executed by shooting at the camp's surrounding firing ranges, some for target practice and for sport.

The memorial site today includes presentations and stories of prisoners, a rebuilt barracks building, rebuilt foundations of all other barracks, and memorial churches.

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Coordinates:   48°16'12"N   11°28'6"E

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  • i samat was here in 1972
  • I want someday visit dachau!
  • I was here in 1969.
  • Judens Creaus!
  • I was here in 1945
  • I was here in 2097. Great place, and everyone should see it to not repeat mistakes of humanity.
  • oops, I meant 2007, not 2097.:)
  • I was here in 1992, I visited and saw the Dachau
  • I was there 2017 and I made this photo report: http://shanomag.com/dachau-concentration-camp/
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