Dachau Concentration Camp
The Dachau Concentration Camp (KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau) was one of the first of many concentration camps established by the Nazis as part of their extermination effort to jail and exterminate selected people.
Standing cells, floggings, the so-called tree or pole hanging, and standing at attention for exceptionally extended periods of time were all options for prisoners who lived in constant fear of severe punishment and terror incarceration. At the camp, there were 32,000 recorded deaths and thousands of unreported deaths. At the time of release, approximately 10,000 of the 30,000 captives were unwell.
The Dachau Concentration Camp was used to imprison SS soldiers awaiting trial in the postwar years. It housed ethnic Germans who had been evicted from Eastern Europe and were waiting to be resettled after 1948, and it was also utilized as a US military installation during the occupation. In 1960, it was eventually shut down.
The Memorial Site, which is open to the public, has various religious memorials and in the list of the most beautiful historical sites in Germany. Today, the site of the Dachau Concentration Camp holds a monument to those who suffered and died as a result of the Nazis: plan on spending at least half a day here to take it all in and absorb it.
Location: Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany
