| Suffering and Death in the Camp |
| ''Last
night Rheinhardt died. I wanted to see him once more, to bid him farewell,
so I went to look for him, as he was lying in the street in front of the
morgue among 150 other prisoners who had died last night.
You could hardly recognize him, his face was swollen and cruelly contorted. His death is a hard blow and a painful loss not only for us, his friends (...) And perhaps the worst thing is that we do not even have time to mourn this death or the deaths of all of our friends.'' (Nico Rost, Goethe in Dachau, p.234) |
| During the war Dachau concentration camp became a place of mass murder. Beginning in October 1941, thousands of war were brought to Dachau and shot. Also, others who the Gestapo, the Secret Police ordered to be executed, were transported to Dachau and killed. |
| A large number of prisoners were misused by SS doctors for medical experiments. There were high altitude experiments, cooling and freezing experiments, a series of malaria experiments and others. An unknown number of prisoners died excruciating deaths. |
| So-called invalid transports began in January 1942. More than 3000 prisoners were taken to former sanitarium at Hartheim castle near Linz, and murdered there with Carbon Monoxide. |
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