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Franz Olah, arrested in 1938 and transported on the first train of Austrian prisoners to Dachau. [4] Hjalmar Schacht, arrested 1944, liberated April 1945; Richard Schmitz; Kurt Schumacher, in Dachau since July 1935, sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1939, returned to Dachau in 1940, released due to extreme illness 16 March 1943
Others were transported by bus, train, or suburban railway and then continued on foot. For Dachau, 10,911 Jews were committed, Buchenwald 9,845 and for Sachsenhausen the figure is estimated at 6,000. [12] This means that the total number of prisoners in concentration camps had doubled near instantaneously.
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 ...
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.
Her views became a thorny issue with the Dutch ex-prisoners, in the long drawn-out compensation claims against IG Farben. French prisoner Marie Bartette published her memoirs in the Journal d'Arcachon in 1946-1947. [9] In May, 2015, the stories of a number of Dutch Dachau political prisoners were published as Geen nummers maar namen. The ...
The Oklahoma Corrections Department has agreed that condemned prisoners in the future can have a personal spiritual advisor in the execution chamber. Oklahoma to allow death row inmates a personal ...
Hotel Pragser Wildsee. On 17, 24 and 26 April 1945 small convoys of buses and trucks began transporting the Prominenten from Dachau toward the SS-Sonderlager Innsbruck.On 27 April the prisoners began the final leg of their journey to a large lake-side hotel at Pragser Wildsee in the Italian Tyrol 12.5 km south west of Niederdorf, then still occupied by three German Luftwaffe generals and their ...
Prisoner file with note on penalties at the concentration camp. The Disciplinary and Penal Code (German: Lagerordnung) was first written for Dachau concentration camp and became the uniform code at all SS concentration camps in the Third Reich on January 1, 1934.