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German and a. English , with additional showings in French, Italian, German, or English upon request. The building also has two wheelchair-accessible toilets, one near section 4 and the other by the library and offices. The maintenance building now the Exhibition or museum is on the right, and the courtyard between the two buildings was used for whippings, pole hangings, and executions during the Nazi era. You can walk through the interior of the bunker, where labels identify areas of special interest.
In addition to serving as a prison, the bunker was the camp's torture center. Double walls were used to suppress the sound of prisoners' screams. The U. Army used the bunker as a prison after World War II.
The grille in this cell door was an American addition. Most prisoners lived in the camp's accommodations barracks or bunkhouses, which were arranged in two rows alongside the camp road. The road, which was planted with populars, was the main recreation area for prisoners during their limited free time.
The old, crumbling barracks were torn down in , after serving as postwar refugee housing. One building has been reconstructed with interior furnishings from three periods: , , and This common room shows the tables where the prisoners ate their skimpy meals. You can also see wooden lockers along the back wall. AAs the camp became more crowded, rows of individual bunk beds were replaced by group bunks. This reconstruction shows what the prisoners' sleeping quarters looked like in Sanitation may have been adequate in , when the barracks were built to accommodate prisoners each, but by the end of the war, each building held up to 2, inmates.
Many prisoners died of diseases, especially during a typus epidemic that killed at least 1, Army prison camp for German POWs. Odd sighting: During my visit, I noticed coins in the fountain-like sink at right. Is it human nature to throw coins into anything that looks like a fountain, even if it's an industrial sink without water in a former concentration camp? The Dachau concentration camp has two crematoria: a small building from , which the SS, and a second, larger crematorium Barrack X, shown above that was built in Both crematory buildings are outside of the camp's perimeter fence.
You can reach them through a gate on the left side of the camp near the Protestant Church of Reconciliation. The crematorium ovens were coal-fired. Although Baracke X had a Zyklon gas chamber, it was never used for mass extermination. Instead, condemned prisoners were executed usually by hanging in front of the ovens. MVV Munich. Deutsche Bahn. English guided tours daily at AM and 1 PM. Tickets are available at the information desk at the visitors' center. Accept Reject. Visitors Information.
Closed on December 24th. From the start, camp detainees were subjected to harsh treatment. On May 25, , Sebastian Nefzger , a Munich schoolteacher, was beaten to death while imprisoned at Dachau. The SS administrators who operated the camp claimed that Nefzger had committed suicide, but an autopsy disclosed that he likely lost his life due to asphyxiation or strangulation.
The prosecutor was immediately overruled by Hitler, who issued an edict stating that Dachau and all other concentration camps were not subject to German law as it applied to German citizens. SS administrators alone would run the camps and hand out punishment as they saw fit. Prisoners deemed guilty of rule breaking were to be brutally beaten.
Those who plotted to escape or espoused political views were to be executed on the spot. Prisoners would not be allowed to defend themselves or protest this treatment. On the evening of November 9, synagogues in Germany and Austria were burned and Jewish homes, schools and businesses were vandalized. Over 30, Jews were arrested and dispatched to Dachau and the Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. Nearly 11, Jews ended up in Dachau. By early , Dachau had been reconverted into a concentration camp.
Conditions at the camp were brutal and overcrowded. The facility had been designed to house some 6, detainees, but the population continued to rise and by approximately 30, prisoners were packed into the camp. Instead, the chancellor determined that the sole solution would be the elimination of every European Jew.
Also set for extermination were members of any group considered by Hitler to be ill-equipped to reside in the new Germany. Several thousand Catholic clergy members were also incarcerated at Dachau. One was Titus Brandsma , a Carmelite cleric, philosopher, writer, teacher and historian as well as an avowed anti-Nazi.
Brandsma arrived at Dachau in June , and died the following month after being given a lethal injection. In January , Kozal perished from a lethal injection.
Pope John Paul II beatified him in Over the years of its operation, from to , thousands of Dachau prisoners died of disease, malnutrition and overwork.
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