Dachau Concentration Camp

Augsburg, Germany, is approximately 80 kilometers (about 50 miles) from the Dachau concentration camp. The drive typically takes around 1 to 1.5 hours, depending on traffic and the route taken. Dachau is located just northwest of Munich, while Augsburg lies to the northwest of Munich.

Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, was established by the SS (Schutzstaffel) under the direction of Heinrich Himmler. Construction began in March 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. The camp was initially intended to detain political prisoners, but it eventually expanded to include various groups deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime.

Dachau concentration camp, established in 1933, held tens of thousands of prisoners at its peak. At various times during its operation, the number of inmates fluctuated significantly, reaching around 30,000 to 35,000 prisoners by 1945. The camp was primarily used for political prisoners, Jews, and other groups deemed undesirable by the Nazi regime. Overall, over 200,000 individuals were imprisoned at Dachau throughout its existence.

Prisoners at Dachau, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, were forced to perform hard labor under brutal conditions. They were typically engaged in industrial work, including the production of munitions, equipment, and other goods for the German war effort. Additionally, prisoners were made to construct camp facilities and perform various manual labor tasks, often leading to severe exhaustion and high mortality rates due to inhumane treatment.

In the Dachau concentration camp, multiple prisoners were often crammed into a single room, with around 30 to 50 people typically assigned to each barrack. The overcrowded conditions meant that many inmates slept on narrow wooden bunks, often with little room to move and limited access to basic sanitation. This contributed to the spread of disease and harsh living conditions within the camp.

During the Dachau death march, which occurred in April 1945 as Allied forces approached, it is estimated that thousands of prisoners died. The exact number is difficult to determine, but reports suggest that around 3,000 to 4,000 prisoners perished due to exhaustion, execution, or exposure during the forced march. The harsh conditions, lack of food, and brutal treatment by the guards contributed significantly to the high death toll.

Yes, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was imprisoned in several locations during his opposition to the Nazi regime, including the Tegel prison in Berlin. He was later transferred to the concentration camp at Flossenbürg, but he was not imprisoned in Dachau. Bonhoeffer was executed there in April 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated.

The Dachau Diet refers to the nutritional regimen implemented in the Dachau concentration camp during World War II. It was characterized by inadequate and poorly balanced meals that led to malnutrition among the prisoners. The diet was part of the overall inhumane conditions in the camp, contributing to severe health issues and high mortality rates. This diet has been studied to understand the effects of starvation and malnutrition in extreme circumstances.

It was actually Dachau Concentration Camp, and a total of 31,951 deaths. 25,334 of them Jews.

Dachau was an ordinary concentration camp, not an extermination camp. Its main purpose was a punishment and labour camp for political prisoners. Obviously, conditions there were bad, but it was not comparable to extermination camps like Treblinka. Most of the Jews at Dachau were there because of their politics. Wikipedia gives the death toll at Dachau and its sub-camps as about 35,000.

It was a concentration camp that gassed people and cremated their bodies. It did have work sections, but people were worked to death and the majority of people sent there died in the gas chambers. Actually age did make a difference. Children, babies, the elderly, infirm, sick, and disabled were killed in the gas chambers.

Many experements were conducted, but the main experements were focused around nerve, muscle, and bone transplantation.

Dachau is nearly 16 kilometers (9.9 miles) from Munich.

During the Holocaust, Dachau was a Concentration Camp.

It was a concentration camp.

Approximately 200,000 people survived auschwitz concentration camps , most of them was Jews, Soviet POWs and couple of gypsies and 1 or 2 homosexuals.

They were all Nazi concentration camps. In addition, part of Auschwitz was an extermination camp.

When prisoners first arrived they were taken out of the freight trains. Afterwards they were herded into large areas where they were often sorted between the "healthy" and "unhealthy" people. People that were in physically good shape were sent to the next room to be completely prepared for life in the camp and the old, very young, weak, sick, etc. were sent to the chambers to be gassed and immediately killed. Men and women were also seperated. Then people would be forced to strip their clothing and put on the uniforms provided. The uniforms were often filled with lice. Then their heads would be shaved and they would be sent to the barracks to begin work in the "labor camps."

No, Nazi's also send to concentration camps: communists, homosexuals, disabled, Russian prisoner's of war, gypsies, partisans. From 12 millions victims of Holocaust, 6 millions were Jews, 3 millions Russian prisoners of war, 3 million others.

There are two Auschwitz Camps: Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz Birkenau

Auschwitz 1

Yes their were toilets, barracks style ones- they weren't particulalry good, but they weren't completley dreadful

Auschwitz Birkenau

Yes- there was a huge shed with a bench down the middle with holes in it. Appalling conditions, the toilets were completley open, so disease spread pretty quick

When first established in 1933 it was quite small and was established on the grounds of an ammunition factory. A few barracks were added to house both the prisoners and the guards and staff. It eventually grew to include 30 subcamps scattered across southern Germany. These subcamps were labor camps and were administered by the Dachau staff. At the time of liberation there were 67,665 prisoners listed as part of the camp system. Only 32,000 were actually liberated. During the 1933 to 1945 period, 188,000 had passed through it.

1) it was a concentration camp, not death camp.

2) of appx 144,000 prisoners, 33,000 died of starvation or disease there and 88,000 were shipped to death camps, primarily Auschwitz.

3) there were only 19,000 prisoners alive when the camp was liberated.

4) it was liberated may 8, 1945 by Soviet troops.

5) In February 1945, Heinrich Himmler (SS chief) allowed a transport of 1,210 mostly Dutch Jews to Switzerland. For this, 1.25million was put into Swiss banks by Jewish organizations.

Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first permanent concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. Heinrich Himmler, in his capacity as police chief of Munich, officially described the camp as the first concentration camp for political prisoners. It opened amid much publicity as it was intended as a deterrent to opponents of the regime.

The camp was housed in a disused munitions factory.

The first prisoners arrived at Dachau on 22 March 1933 and this is regarded as the opening date. Himmler gave a press conference about it at the time, and its existence was never a secret.

Initially Dachau was run by the SA, not specifically by the SS. Later, Dachau became the model for all ordinary Nazi concentration camps.