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Mostly Jews & German enemies relocated there by the Germans.
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Who created Dachau?
The Nazis designed and planned the Dachau concentration camp but it was the prisoners who would of been in them, who actually built it.
Why is dachau important?
Dachau was the first Nazi Concentration camp. It was first just used for political prisoners but as time went on more people were put into the camp. Dachau was the model for the other concentration camps that came later. Inside Dachau prisoners were medically experimented on and they had to do forced labor which sometimes killed them.
What drug in World War 2 was used on prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp?
mescaline
What was the death train in dachau concentration camp?
When the Americans liberated Dachau they found a trainload of prisoners sent there from Buchenwald. All of them were dead on arrival.
How did they treat the prisioners in dachau?
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.
Where was Dachau camp located and what was its purpose?
Dachau concentration camp is locted in upper bavaria, southern germany. It's first purpose was to keep political prisoners in but as time proceeded, it started to kill people
When did the Allies liberate Dachau?
American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp on Saturday 29th April 1945. As they neared the camp, they found more than 30 coal cars filled with decomposing bodies at Dachau. American soldiers discover more than 30,000 prisoners in the camp. There were more than 200,000 registered prisoners during the history of the camp. Of these, more than 30,000 died. Because thousands more prisoners arrived and died in the camp without being registered, the total number of victims remains unknown.
Was dachau an extermination camp?
During the Holocaust, Dachau was a Concentration Camp.
How many deaths accorded in dachau?
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/6/68/250px-KZDachau1945.jpg Dachau housed over 200,000 prisoners in which 25,613 prisoners were estimated to have been killed at the camp with another 10,000 deaths at the surrounding sub-camps.
What was it like in dachau concentration camp?
Dachau was an ordinary concentration camp.
Was dachau a labor camp?
Dachau was a concentration/extermination camp in WWII.
What was the concentration camp in Dachau called?
It was called the Dachau concentration camp.
