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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
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.
The prisoners of Dachau concentration camp originally were to serve as forced labor for a munition factory, and to expand the camp. It was used as a training center for the SS-Totenkopfverbände guards and was a model for other concentration camps. [36] The camp was about 300 m × 600 m (1,000 ft × 2,000 ft) in rectangular shape.
During the Dachau liberation reprisals, [Note 2] German SS troops were killed by U.S. soldiers and concentration camp prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, during World War II. It is unclear how many SS guards were killed in the incident, but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50.
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.
On May 13, 1942, the first transport of around 90 concentration camp prisoners arrived from Dachau concentration camp, and the monastery became a satellite camp of Dachau concentration camp. About a year later, 30 Bible Students ( Jehovah's Witnesses ) arrived from Ravensbrück , for whom a second satellite camp was set up, since SS guidelines ...
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The wife and children of Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, members of the Wittelsbach family, October 1944 to April 1945, before being transferred to Dachau concentration camp. Reinhold Wulle , monarchist and former German National People's Party leader.