Dachau Concentration Camp

On Thursday 26th April 1945, just three days before the liberationof the Dachau camp, the SS forces about 7,000 prisoners on a death march from Dachau south to Tegernsee. During the six-day death march, the SS shoots anyone who cannot keep up or continue marching. Many others die of exposure, hunger, or exhaustion. The surviving prisoners will arrive in Tegernsee on May 2, 1945, where American forces liberate them.

arbiet macht frei. it means work makes free. i went there last summer and i speak german.

Buchenwald and Dachau were concentration camps during WWII. Both were liberated in April by American troops.

# Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp to open (22 March 1933) # It was used mainly as a punishment and forced labour camp for various 'dissidents', in particular, Communists, Social Democrats, liberals and later clergymen. # Dachau was used as the main centre for training concentration camp personnel and became the 'model' for most later camps. # It was a Grade I camp. In very general terms this meant that prisoners were somewhat better fed there than at many other camps. # When the Americans were close to the camp, the SS tried to evacuate many of the prisoners on a forced march.

The Bataan death march, and the Dachau death march, were two separate events. The first was in the Philippines and was perpetrated by the Japanese, and the second was in Germany.

About 217 kilometres or 135 miles.

It was established in March 1933, mainly for Communists and Social Democrats.

(If the question relates to the site and the buildings before they became a concentration camp, the answer is that they were a disused armaments factory).

No, there is not.

Dachau Concentration Camp-was Germany's first concentration camp, started in 1933 because the prisons were overflowing with people the government didn't like. They didn't have enough money to just build more prisons the way we do in our War on Drugs, so the Nazis built work camps like Dachau. Dachau is distinctive because it was here that SS personnel (Eichmann, Hess) trained for work in newer camps such as Auschwitz.

Yes, there were survivors who were freed when the Americans liberated Dachau. On April 26, 1945, as American forces approached, there were 67,665 registered prisoners in Dachau and its subcamps; more than half of this number were in the main camp. Of these, 43,350 were categorized as political prisoners, while 22,100 were Jews, with the remainder falling into various other categories.

Starting that day, the Germans forced more than 7,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, on a death march from Dachau to Tegernsee far to the south. During the death march, the Germans shot anyone who could no longer continue; many also died of hunger, cold, or exhaustion. On April 29, 1945, American forces liberated Dachau. As they neared the camp, they found more than 30 railroad cars filled with bodies brought to Dachau, all in an advanced state of decomposition. In early May 1945, American forces liberated the prisoners who had been sent on the death march.

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The best way is to use a highway map, either a conventional map or an online map source such as googlemaps.com or mapquest.com .

When the Americans liberated Dachau they found a trainload of prisoners sent there from Buchenwald. All of them were dead on arrival.