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Dachau Concentration Camp

Himmler, Heinrich
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Alternative Title
Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/180351
Date
1933-1945
Description
Sculpture at Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site by Nandor Glid, erected 1968; It was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory southeast of the medieval town of Dachau. Opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, ordinary German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. In the postwar years the Dachau facility served to hold SS soldiers awaiting trial. After 1948, it held ethnic Germans who had been expelled from eastern Europe and were awaiting resettlement, and also was used for a time as a United States military base during the occupation. It was finally closed for use in 1960. There are several religious memorials within the Memorial Site, which was formed in the 1960s. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 8/26/2015)
Type of Work
historic site; concentration camp
Subject
architecture, military or war, Holocaust, World War, 1939-1945, Nazi Party, Twentieth century
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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