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 was the first concentration camp but the largest was Auschwitz
* 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.
Yes you can Visit Auschwitz today, 2 years after Auschwitz was liberated, it becomed an Museum.
Many names. here are some for a example. Auschwitz I Birkenau (Auschwitz II) Belzec Bergen-Belsen Chelmno Dachau Monowitz (Auschwitz III) Sobibor Treblinka Warsaw Westerbork