{"id":16986,"date":"2024-06-17T10:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/dachau-concentration-camp\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:34:37","slug":"dachau-concentration-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/dachau-concentration-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Dachau Concentration Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Dachau camp, located in Germany near Munich, was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi regime in 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power. The camp, initially reserved for German opponents of Nazism, quickly began to hold foreigners, Jews, homosexuals, and Roma. It was brutally administered by the SS and remained in operation until the arrival of American soldiers on April 29, 1945. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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On June 26, 1933, Theodor Eicke, a longtime member of the SS, was appointed camp commander by Himmler, a high-ranking Nazi official. A regime of terror was established at Dachau, and the foundations of the Nazi concentration camp system were put into place there.By 1940, the number of inmates had reached 10,000 and continued to grow steadily. Initially, those interned were opponents of Nazism, mainly communists; followed by Bavarian Jews, Roma, anti-Nazi clergy, homosexuals, and Soviet prisoners of war. The unused gas chamber was replaced by a firing squad: those sentenced to death were shot in the back of the neck. <\/p>

The camp’s entrance gate bears the inscription ” Arbeit Macht Frei<\/em> ” (Work Sets You Free)\u2026<\/p>

“Free” workers\u2014a forced, enslaved, and abused labor force\u2014kept German companies running. Living conditions were appalling (scientific experiments on prisoners, abuse, poor hygiene, malnutrition, disease, and epidemics) and led to a very high mortality rate. <\/p>

A clandestine \u201cInternational Committee\u201d was made up of prisoners representing the various nationalities interned at the camp. In April 1945, a German Communist prisoner on the Committee managed to help a few men who were still able-bodied escape. Informed by them of the camp\u2019s location, American soldiers discovered 1,600 prisoners in Dachau who had been reduced to skeletal remains. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2014 Stanislav Z\u00e1me\u010dn\u00edk (translated from Czech by Sylvie Graffard), 2013, *That Was Dachau: 1933\u20131945<\/em>*. Published by Cherche midi, \u201cDocuments\u201d series. <\/p>

\u2014 Rayski Adam, supplement to *La Lettre des R\u00e9sistants et D\u00e9port\u00e9s<\/em> Juifs*<\/em>, No. 46<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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