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| "The
day is over, April 29, 1945. For the rest of my life I will celebrate this
day as my second birthday. The day I received the gift of my new
life."
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| With the various advances of the allied troops, more and more concentration camps were evacuated by the SS. The prisoners were transported to camps in territory still under Nazi control. On these week-long transports, usually walking, thousands of prisoners lost their lives because of sickness weakness, starvation or beaten by the SS, or when they could no longer walk, they were shot by the SS. |
| The number of prisoners in Dachau concentration camp multiplied, and by December 1944 catastrophic conditions reigned. The barracks were hopelessly overcrowded, a typhus epidemic took thousands of lives. |
| On April 27, 1945, approximately 7,000 prisoners from the main camp in Dachau were sent on a march towards the Alps in the south. |
| On April 28, 1945 most of the SS abandoned the camp. One day later, on April 29, 1945, Dachau was liberated by units of the US Army |
| A few days before the liberation there were more than 67,000 Dachau camp prisoners. Half of them were in the main camp at Dachau, the remainder in the subsidiary camps and work detachments. |
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