The Dachau concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp that was in existence during the second world war and operational between March 1933 and April 1945. It was designed and utilized for the express purpose of carrying out state sponsored genocide on an industrial scale against various groups of people, mostly significantly against European Jews but other political enemies of Nazi Germany as well were brought to these camps. Dachau was the prototype of other German concentration camps, and it had 100 subcamps.
About Dachau Concentration Camp:
Dachau is located in present-day Southern Germany. During the second world war, Jews, Romani, German, and Poles made up the vast majority of the inmates in the prison. In camps like this, prisoners were subjected to brutal inhumane conditions including forced labor, starvation and outright torture. The express intent of much of this treatment was in fact to cause death of the prisoners.
About the Dachau Prisoner:
The camp became a prototype for the large system of similar camps that would be developed during the war years across Nazi Germanys Third Reich. This concentration camp system was the answer to what Adolf Hitler referred to as the “Jewish problem” to which he prescribed this cold blooded “Final Solution.” The camps, having started as more conventional labor camps began being re equipped to become factories of death that carried out extermination of human life on an industrial scale.
Dachau had many other purposes in the post war years. After the concentration camp was closed, Dachau became a regular prison where SS soldiers stayed before their trials in Nuremburg. It was home to Germans from eastern Europe waiting for resettlement. It was also an American military base camp at some point. Many former inmates of these concentration camps have spoken of their tribulations. The average Dachau survivor underwent many brutal trials and tribulations that most of us could hardly bare to contemplate.
It is important that society take special care of these precious survivors as their memories are a treasure trove of vital lessons and understandings for the collective global humanity.
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