| Dachau was the first of Hitler's concentration camp. |
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| Dachau opened on March, 1933. Heinrich Himmler announces the opening of the camp. The camp was 12 miles from Munich located on a old abandoned munitions factory. Later one of Heinrich Himmler's general's is fired for being accused of beating prisoners. So Hitler makes a law that that is allowed in Dachau and the other concentration camps. |
| By may, 1933 there were 1200 people in the camp, mostly political prisoners , Jews and homosexuals from Munich. |
| The first year that the camp opened there were 4,000 prisoners. The prisoners were carried there by train cars that were usually used to carry 8 chevaux horse and 40 men. In each train car there were at least 30-40 dead bodies in each one. |
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| In 1937 the number of prisoners rose to 13,260. Over crowding caused many problems for the people in Dachau. Diseases like typhus was spreading all over the camp. There were hundreds of dead bodies found all around the camp. The prisoners were beat so badly that some people just committed suicide and others refused to work so they were beat by SS military guards. |
| This is a picture of some of the dead bodies. This was nothing compared to the number dead bodies found at the camp. They were also found in the barracks and the crematorium. |
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| There were four gas chambers used to kill Jews and other prisoners. they were originally used to fumigate clothing but they used them to kill prisoners. They used Zyklon pellets to fumigate the clothing and to kill the Jew's. 32,000 Jew's and other people were killed in Dachau in what later became the Holocaust. |
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| Bishon Neuhausler wrote this" a good use for the poison gas provided". |
| By 1945 206,206 prisoners had been signed in. The total number of prisoners may never be known. Three month before the camps liberation 10,000 people had been criminated in Dachau. On April 29, 1945 American forces approach . There were 67,665 registered prisoners in Dachau. On April 29, 1945 American forces liberate Dachau. Don Rodda went there on May 1, 1945 and he was so surprised about all the dead bodies and how bad of shape it was in and he saw how badly the prisoners were treated just by looking at them. |
| Despite all that has been said and expienced at Dachau there are still those who deny the Holocaust. |
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