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The Birth of Hell (a.k.a. The First Protective Custody Camp): Photos 21 to 42
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April 27th 2008 by Roaming Rosie
In 1933, Hitler had recently gained power in Germany and needed a new place to imprison his political opponents. Thus was the birth of the Dachau Concentration Camp, or KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau. The city of Dachau is over a thousand years old, even older than its close neighbor of Munich, and the buildings of the concentration camp date back to WWI, when they were used as an armaments factory. When Germany lost the Great War, they were no longer allowed to produce armaments, and the factory at Dachau was abandoned. Later, in March of 1933, the Munich Chief of Police announced that
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The barracks bathroom. As the barracks are reconstructed, I can't say for sure if these are original toilets, but it does demonstrate that Dachau had indoor pluming.
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Looking up the Camp Road towards the Maintenance Building. On either side of this road were the barracks.
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In the "changing room," where the prisoners removed their clothing for the "showers," and the door that leads to the gas chamber and the room beyond where the dead bodies were to be piled to wait for ... [more]
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The "shower room," or gas chamber, in Barrack X. Notice how low the ceiling is, as to be more efficient when the gas was released from the vents on the ceiling. However, as noted in my blog, this ga... [more]
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A 1945 photograph of the piles of corpses waiting to be cremated that the American Troops discovered when they liberated the camp.
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Monument in front of the Maintenance Building. Created by Nandor Glid in 1968, it represents the prisoners who threw themselves against the electric fence.
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Medical Experiments. This man was dressed in a pilot's suit and placed in freezing water to test how to best rewarm the body. Photo taken between 1942-45.
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Medical Experiments. This man was placed in the decompression chamber to test lack of pressure and oxygen. Photo taken between 1942-45.
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