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Dachau was a concentration camp located near Munich, Bavaria. The opening of Dachau was announced at a press conference by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on March 20, 1933. The first group of prisoners, consisting mainly of Communists and Social Democrats, were brought to Dachau on March 22, 1933. During the camp's 12-year existence, the prisoner population included, among others, political opponents, criminals, Sinti and Roma ("Gypsies"), Jews, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and members of the Catholic clergy. During World War II, Dachau and its system of subcamps was principally responsible for furnishing slave labor to the armament industries in the territories of the Salzburg district, Tirol, and Vorarlberg of Austria, the district of Oberbayern and Schwaben in Bavaria, and the parts of Germany adjacent to the Lake of Constance in Württemberg and Baden. Over 200,000 prisoners were incarcerated at Dachau during its existence. American forces liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945. They found box cars near the camp filled with bodies in an advanced state of decomposition. These were prisoners who were brought to Dachau from other camps towards the end of the war. In the main camp, American forces liberated approximately 30,000 prisoners. (en-US)

Fonte

Lutz, Thomas, ed. Memorial Museums to the Victims of the Nazi Regime: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, 1996. p. 57

Termini più generici

• campi nazisti in Germania