Dachau concentration camp

Dachau concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau, IPA: [ˈdaxaʊ]) was the first concentration camp the Nazis opened during World War II. It was built in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler and was open longer than any other Nazi concentration camp.^[1]

The camp was located on the grounds of an old munitions factory. It was southeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany.^[2]

The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps. These were mostly work camps (Arbeitskommandos), and were located throughout southern Germany and Austria.^[3]

Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis imprisoned over 200,000 people at Dachau and killed at least 40,000.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Holocaust Encyclopedia. "Dachau". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
2. ↑ "Ein Konzentrationslager für politische Gefangene In der Nähe von Dachau". Münchner Neueste Nachrichten ("The Munich Latest News") (in German). The Holocaust History Project. 21 March 1933. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
3. ↑ Concentration Camp Dachau Entry Registers (Zugangsbuecher) 1933-1945. https://www.archives.gov/research/captured-german-records/microfilm/m1938.pdf retrieved 13 November 2014