No. Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp; Auschwitz was Grade III, which was the harshest grade. Part of the Birkenau section of Auschwitz was an extermination camp.
* Dachau - Near Munich, Bavaria. * Auschwitz I - Near Oswiemcim, about 40 miles SW of Krakow, Poland (then under Nazi occupation). * Birkenau was Auschwitz II and about 1 mile from Auschwitz I (see above). * Buchenwald was near Weimar, Thuringia. Dachau, Auschwitz I and Buchenwald also had several sub-camps, some of which was far away from the main camp.
Dachau and Auschwitz
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Buna
Auschwitz was an extermination camp that killed the most people.Dachau was the first concentration camp.
Dachau and Auschwitz were two well-known concentration camps of the many that Nazi Germany opened. Dachau was ostensibly a detention camp for dissenters and "political prisoners", but many, many people died there. Auschwitz was an outright death camp, where people were sent to be killed by "annihilation by work", or by being sent directly to the gas chambers.
No, both Auschwitz and Dachau were Concentration Camps durinng the Holocaust.
* Dachau - Near Munich, Bavaria. * Auschwitz I - Near Oswiemcim, about 40 miles SW of Krakow, Poland (then under Nazi occupation). * Birkenau was Auschwitz II and about 1 mile from Auschwitz I (see above). * Buchenwald was near Weimar, Thuringia. Dachau, Auschwitz I and Buchenwald also had several sub-camps, some of which was far away from the main camp.
Dachau and Auschwitz
Dachau and Auschwitz
AUSCHWITZ/BUCHANWALD /DACHAU
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Buna
First: Dachau Largest: Auschwitz
Auschwitz was an extermination camp that killed the most people.Dachau was the first concentration camp.
Dachau and Auschwitz were two well-known concentration camps of the many that Nazi Germany opened. Dachau was ostensibly a detention camp for dissenters and "political prisoners", but many, many people died there. Auschwitz was an outright death camp, where people were sent to be killed by "annihilation by work", or by being sent directly to the gas chambers.
It is known that Germans built over 2000 camps and sub-camps in occupied Europe. Auschwitz is the most famous but which is second best known varies. Bergen-Belsen or Majdanek is likely the second best known.
Yes you can Visit Auschwitz today, 2 years after Auschwitz was liberated, it becomed an Museum.
it was the largest death camp in the holocaust, that along with Dachau