Dachau

This was taken looking out from the entrance gate. The buildings you see are part of a complex now used by the Polizei. The large mound of dirt, grass and plants was not here when Dachau was a working concentration camp; these mounds were added later so that the present citizens of the city of Dachau would not have to look at the concentration camp remains.

The Birth of Hell (a.k.a. The First Protective Custody Camp)

April 27th 2008
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. W ... read more

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