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Dachau had a special "priest block." Of the 2720 priests (among them 2579 Catholic) held in Dachau, 1034 did not survive the camp. The majority were Polish (1780), of whom 868 died in Dachau. Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, imprisoned in Dachau from September to December 1944
Prisoner's Barracks of Dachau Concentration Camp.. Dachau was established in March 1933 as the first Nazi Concentration Camp.Dachau was chiefly a political camp, rather than an extermination camp, but of around 160,000 prisoners sent to its main camp, over 32,000 were either executed or died of disease, malnutrition or brutalization.
Many prisoners were released in late 1933, and after the well-publicized Christmas amnesty, there were only a few dozen camps left. [ 8 ] The number of prisoners in 1933–1934 is difficult to determine; Jane Caplan estimated it at 50,000, with arrests perhaps exceeding 100,000, [ 4 ] while Wachsmann estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 ...
The tattoo was the prisoner's camp entry number, sometimes with a special symbol added: some Jews had a triangle, and Romani had the letter "Z" (from German Zigeuner for "Gypsy"). In May 1944, the Jewish men received the letters "A" or "B" to indicate particular series of numbers.
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The Disciplinary and Penal Code (German: Lagerordnung), also known as the Punishment Catalogue (Strafkatalog), was a set of regulations for prisoners at Nazi concentration camps. The code was first written for Dachau concentration camp and became the uniform code at all Schutzstaffel (SS) concentration camps in the Nazi Germany on 1
During the Final Solution of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany created six extermination camps to carry out the systematic genocide of the Jews in German-occupied Europe.All the camps were located in the General Government area of German-occupied Poland, with the exception of Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland of German-occupied Poland.
People convicted in the Dachau trials (4 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Dachau concentration camp personnel" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.