Dachau was the first of the concentration camps to be opened by Nazi's in Germany. There was a continuous population of at least 12,000 people held at the camps between 1942 and 1945. There were an estimated 32,000 killed while interred at or brought to the camp for the purpose of extermination.
It was actually Dachau Concentration Camp, and a total of 31,951 deaths. 25,334 of them Jews.
There were 40,500 deaths at Dachau.
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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.
Hitler designed Dachau concentration camp but it was the people who was going to be in it who built it.
In total, over 200,000 people passed through it.
It was actually Dachau Concentration Camp, and a total of 31,951 deaths. 25,334 of them Jews.
There were 40,500 deaths at Dachau.
2720 Priests were in Dachau concentration camp.
Most of the Dachau prisoners were taken there in trucks and on trains. The Nazis held guns on them the entire time until they were ushered into barracks.
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At first he was held in Sachsenhausen, then transferred to Dachau.
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.
Hitler designed Dachau concentration camp but it was the people who was going to be in it who built it.
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.
Dachau was run by the SS.
After Dachau was created in 2001.