KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site)
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On 22 March 1933, a concentration camp for political prisoners was established in Dachau. It served as a model for all later concentration camps and as a "school of violence" for the men of the SS. In the 12 years of its existence, over 200,000 people from all over Europe were imprisoned here and in 140 subcamps. 41,500 were murdered. The KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau (Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site) was built in 1965 on the initiative of and according to the plans of surviving prisoners and comprises the grounds of the former prisoners' camp and the crematorium area. The Jourhaus with the entrance and the gate inscription "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you free"), the utility building, the camp prison ("bunker"), watchtowers and crematoria have been preserved. At the transition from the former roll call square to the camp road with its original 34 prisoner barracks are two reconstructed buildings, one of which is accessible as a museum barrack. The service building now houses a permanent exhibition on the historical site. The focus is on the fate of the inmates, under the leitmotif "The Path of the Prisoners". In addition, four religious memorial sites (Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Russian Orthodox) and a central memorial on the former roll call square were created.As further memorial sites, the former SS shooting range Hebertshausen, where over 4000 Soviet prisoners of war were murdered, the concentration camp cemetery on the Leitenberg and the forest cemetery can be visited in the vicinity.
Last edited on 09.01.2025
