Dachau was the concentration camp that was in operation the longest, from March 1933 to April 1945, nearly all twelve years of the Nazi regime. Dachau's close proximity to Munich, where Hitler came to power and where the Nazi Party had its official headquarters, made Dachau a …

Oct 16, 2024 · The Dachau concentration camp, northwest of Munich, Germany, was the first regular concentration camp the Nazis established in 1933. About twelve years later, on April 29, 1945, US armed forces liberated the camp.

Feb 1, 2025 · Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany, established on March 10, 1933, slightly more than five weeks after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. Built at the edge of the town of Dachau, about 12 miles north of Munich, it became the model and training center for all other SS-organized camps.

Nov 6, 2020 · American troops directing the liberation operations of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. After a 30-second flurry of gunfire, at least 17 German prisoners lay dead in the Dachau...

Nov 9, 2009 · Dachau, a concentration camp that opened in Nazi Germany in 1933 after Adolf Hitler seized power, held thousands of Jews, political prisoners and others.

Up until the end of the war, the Dachau concentration camp operates a network of 140 subcamps, located foremost in southern Bavaria. The function of the main camp changes: it becomes a collection and distribution point of slave workers for the subcamps.

"Dachau - the meaning of this name cannot be erased from German history. It stands for concentration camps built by the Nazis in their territory." EUGEN KOGON

2 days ago · DACHAU, Germany (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial on Thursday, walking the solemn halls with a group that included a Holocaust survivor once held at the site of so much suffering and mass murder.

As Hitler readied Germany for war in the summer of 1939, Dachau was a fixture of a giant and abominable system of concentration camps spread throughout the entire country. Flossenbürg in northeastern Bavaria, Neuengamme, close to Hamburg, and Mauthausen, near Linz in annexed Austria, had all been established in 1938.

On March 22 1933, the Nazi regime opened a concentration camp on the grounds of the disused Königlich Bayerische Pulver- und Munitionsfabrik Dachau, a defunct factory complex that once produced gunpowder and ammunition.