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The camp was intended mainly for political opponents of the Nazi regime, especially Communists, Social Democrats and trade union leaders.

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Q: What group of people was the concentration camp Dachau originally built for?
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Hitler designed Dachau concentration camp but it was the people who was going to be in it who built it.


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