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The Dachau concentration camp started on March 10, 1933. It was the first concentration camp, and it was opened in the town of Dachau, just outside Munich, a major city in southern Germany. -
Dachau was originally a camp for political prisoners. It eventually evolved into a death camp where thousands of people died. Some of the groups of people involved artists, intellectuals, the physically and mentally handicapped, and homosexuals. The main group that was targeted and sent to Dachau was the Jews. -
SS officer Theodor Eike instituted a "doctrine of dehumanization" based on slave labor, corporal punishment, flogging, and withholding food. If you tried to escape, they would kill you. -
The people weren't given enough time to rest. After roll call, they went straight to work. Food portions became smaller and less nutritious. -
The prisoners were forced to build new camps or maintaining or extending current camps. The type of labor was determined by the type of camp. -
Prisoners would get soup for lunch and dinner, with just one piece of bread. These rations were further limited by the guards who would steal the food or limited the amount of food that the prisoners got. -
Prisoners slept in broken down barracks with leaking roofs. they were crammed onto tiny bunks, often without blankets or directly on muddy floors. Some prisoners had to sleep in flimsy tents or damp tunnels. -
Over 12 years, there were 206,206 prisoners. Of those prisoners, 31,951 died. Crematoria were built to dispose of the bodies. -
American troops liberated Dachau. -
When Dachau was liberated, the American troops killed the Nazis running the camp. 30 of the guards were killed. -
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