Dachau

The prisoners of Dachau joyfully welcoming the Allied Troops that liberated them. Photo 1945.

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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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