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This article is all about Dachau town. For the concentration camp, see Dachau concentration camp. For the mass murder committed by Americans, look at Dachau Massacre.
Dachau is an attractive city around southern Germany, in the federal state of Bavaria. Set at , simply Twenty kilometer out of Munich, it has become the popular housing region for humans working around Munich, & okay, has about 40,000 dweller. the town has the historic city centre, by having a castle built in the 18th century.

Dachau was founded in the 8th century, and was a front yard of numbers of creative person in a period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A writer Ludwig Thoma was born there.

Dachau is better known for the proximity of the comparatively easily-preserved places of the notorious Dachau concentration camp, the foremost heavy-shell concentration camp within Germany, converted from an old powder mill per Nazi regime in 1933.

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The Dachau Gas Chambers
A examination of the camp with focus on the documentary and testimonial evidence regarding its homicidal gas chamber. Includes many photographs.

Dachau Concentration Camp
Contains a photo essay of a trip to Dachau, with reader comments.

The Nizkor Project: Dachau
Contains reports and letters about the medical experiments done at the camp.

Dachau Memorial Site
Contains monuments, a tour of the camp, and photos of victims, survivors and the liberation.

Jewish Virtual Library: Dachau
Information on prisoner experiments, photographs, plus a list of guards prosecuted during the Dachau trial with their punishment.

Z.B.Dachau
A group investigating the contemporary history of Dachau. Contains history, camp personnel, and hints for visiting. Also available in German and Spanish.

Wikipedia: Dachau Concentration Camp
Contains a brief history of the camp, plus a list of famous prisoners.

Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial
Describes the museum, archive and library, and features a multimedia virtual tour. Also includes information about education courses and special exhibitions. [English and German]

Dachau Concentration Camp - Liberation
Contains a detailed timeline of the events leading up to, during, and after the liberation of the camp.

Inside Dachau, by Sherman Alexie
Offers seven poems about a personal visit to the site.


Regional: Europe: Germany: States: Bavaria: Localities: Dachau






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