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The Map
1. The main camp road
2. Barracks to house the prisoners
3. Roll call square
4. Camp administration- Entrance building (Jourhaus)
5. Building for kitchen, laundry, storage room & showers
6. Disinfection barrack
7. Camp greenhouses
8. Ditch, electrified barbed-wire barrier and wall surrounding the camp
9. Guard towers
10. Camp prison (bunker)
11. Camp crematory
"On Wednesday the first concentration camp with the
capacity for 5,000 prisoners will be established near Dachau."(Volkischer Beobachter, Tuesday, March 21, 1933)
On March 21, 1933 Heinrich Himmler made it known that the concentration camp in Dachau had been established. Thus the terror system in Dachau began which was unlike any other punishment system ever devised. In June 1933, Theodor Eicke became commandment of the camp. Later, Eicke made the camp in Dachau the model for the rest of the camps and he also made Dachau the ''murder school'' for the members of the SS.
The Prisoners
The first prisoners were political opponents of the regime: communist, social democrats, members of the trade unions and a few members of the conservative and the liberal parties. Also, the first Jewish prisoners were imprisoned in Dachau because of their political beliefs. In the following years new groups of prisoners were deported to Dachau: Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovahs', Witnesses, Clergymen, and others. After the November programs in 1938, the so-called "Crystal Night," more then 10,000 Jews were brought to Dachau. Altogether, there were more then 200,000 prisoners from more then 30 countries imprisoned in Dachau.
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Click Here to learn about Slave Labor in in Dachau
Click Here to learn how people suffered and died in Dachau
Click Here to learn about the Last Days of Liberation
"Arbeit Macht Frei"
These words were at the top of the entrance of Dachau meaning "Work Brings Freedom."
This web site was carried out by John R. Pelfrey and Ben A. Alfano
Sources
1. Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site: http://www.infospace.de/gedenkstaette/english/begin.htm 2. The Holocaust A Tragic Legacy: http://library.advanced.org/12663/ 3. Holocaust Studies: http://www.candles-museum.com/ 4. Mining Co.: http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/dachau-badges.html 5. Mining Co.: http://holocaust.miningco.com/library/mics/blmap.htm?pid=2765&cob=home&TMog=35114747125834m&Mint=72886282223555&ffv=1
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