This is a map of Dachau.

     The establishment of a concentration camp was first made public by Heinrich Himmler on March 20, 1933 during a press conference. The Dachau concentration camp was the first official special camp for communist protective detainees at the site of a former ammunition factory near Dachau. The camp is located in southern Germany.

These prisoners are marching to the gas chamber to be killed.

     The night before, 54 police from Munich had to come to be on guard and they told the arriving men, women, and children that they are in protective custody. The people sent to the Dachau concentration camp were Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah's' ,Witnesses, Clergymen and others were killed. After the November Programs in 1938, the so-called "Crystal Night," more than 10,000 Jews were brought to Dachau.
     Gold wedding rings were taken from concentration camp victims testify to the vast number of Jews who perished in the camp. Jews were boarded onto railway cars bound for Dachau. Even though many Jews had heard rumors of the camp, they tried to hope for the best and believe that the Germans were lying about the camp. Naked women and small children were led off to massive pits and executed. Jewish attendants drug skeletal corpse's of men, women, and children from the Dachau concentration camp. During the war the Dachau concentration camp became a place of mass murder. Beginning in October 1941, thousands of Soviet prisoners of war were brought to Dachau and shot. Also others who the Gestapo, and the Soviet Police to be executed, were transported to the camp and killed.
     Until the day of liberation on April 29, 1945 a minimum of 206.206 of twenty-seven nations had been incarcerated at the concentration camp of Dachau. At the registry office, the death of 13.951 had been documented. They had died by intentional and planned murder acts of the supervisors, by medical tests, malnutrition and exhaustion, by frostbite, diseases, and mental distress. The number of prisoners is unknown who lost their lives in the death marches of March and April of 1945 when the SS tried to clear the camp while the Americans were approaching. The cold and odor was so bad that I can't believe that anybody could have survived the Dachau Concentration Camp.
     In March 1933 Czech prisoners were brought to Dachau, and after the beginning of the war prisoners from Poland, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and so on. After the annexation of Austria in the spring of 1938, Austrian prisoners were brought to Dachau and subsequently, in the same year, prisoners from the "Sudeten"-area. Finally the German prisoners were a minority: The Polish prisoners were the largest national group, and then the Soviet Union prisoners. Dachau had its own crematorium.

A man committed suicide in the electric fence because of the harsh slave labor in the camp.

     The Nazis decided to produce important armaments, airplanes and rockets in huge underground factories because of German airplane production became more and more endangered. The slaves aka (prisoners) were forced to build the huge underground factories. As a result, Two large camp complexes were established, as subsidiary camps of Dachau; Kaufering and Muhldorf.
     When Himmler became Political Police Commander of Bavaria on April 1, 1933 he took over control of the concentration camp as head of the political Emergency Police formed by members of the SA and SS. The Protective Police of Munich announced in a circular dated April 7, 1933: "The supervision of the Dachau camp will be taken over by the SS as of April 11,1933. The commanders will be recruited from the Protective Police." As fast as possible, the SS increased thier position of strength in the camp. If the SS force consisted of about 60 men in the beginning, it grew to 196 by April 12, to 217 by the twentieth of April and then to 238 by April 30.
     The change of supervision from the police to the SS also represents extreme changes to the prisoners as the head of the although still the leader of the entire camp to the outside-no longer is in charge of the camp now is Sturmhaupt Fuhrer Hilmar Wackerle, who starts a wave of terror that had not been in Germany ever before. In Dachau was a small wonder that the only superman who still held his head up high was the larger-than-life-sized statue of a SS trooper on a wall in a hallway.

I got my information from these web sites:
members.aol.com/zbdachau/history/endl.htm
http://www2.3dresearch.com/~june/Vincent/Camps/DachEng.html
Movie Horror of the Camps
www.infospace.de/gedenkstaetfe/frm/idx_gese.htm
http://holocaust.miningco.com/education/holocaust/library/misc/bldachau.htm
ww.snap.com/search/directory/results/1,61;0,00.html?tog=st.v2fdsb.1&keyword=Dachau+camp
http://holocaust.miningco.com/education/holocaust/library/misc/bldachau.htm