T
he Dachau Concentration Camp was the first Nazi camp created for political prisoners, Jews, and other so-called undesirables. At first, Dachau housed many prominent prisoners who came from political, artistic, academic, and noble backgrounds. Later, when Hitler began the Final Solution, Dachau became a camp for Jews and other minorities from all over Eastern Europe. Dachau was unique because it was the first. All other camps were modeled after Dachau's organization and cruelty. When the camp was liberated by U.S. troops on April 29, 1945, more than 200,000 prisoners had come through the gates and thousands of those people died under harsh and terrible treatment by SS guards at the Dachau Concentration Camp.
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Location: Lat/Long
48° N, 11° E
Other: Total Number of Countries Prisoners came from
34
Other: Total Prisoners
More than 200,000
Other: Date Opened
22 Mar 1933
Other: 21 prisoners arrested during Röhm Putsch murdered
1934
Other: Thousands die of typhus and malnutrition
1945
Other: Start building 150 subsidiary forced labor camps
1943
Other: Mass shootings of more than 4,000 Soviet prisoners
1941
Other: Terror in the camp is intensified
1936
Other: Hundreds of Sinti and Roma deported to Dachau
1939
Other: Over 11,000 Jews & opponents sent to camp
Nov 1938
Other: New prisoner groups are sent to the camp
1935
Other: Invalid Transports, 2,500 prisoners murdered w/gas
1942
Other: Over 13,000 prisoners are sent from Poland
1940
Other: Start of medical experiments on prisoners
1942
Other: Building of new camp with room for 6,000 prisoners
1937
Other: Evacuation of 16,000 prisoners in the camp begins
23 Mar 1945
Other: Over 63,000 prisoners in Dachau & subsidiary camps
Dec 1944
Other: Camp closed for SS training
Other: Theodor Eicke becomes commander
Jun 1933
Other: 10,000 Jewish prisoners are killed "through work"
1944
Camp Liberated: Date
29 Apr 1945
Camp Liberated: Liberation force
US Army Troops
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