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Dachau
The Oxford Companion to World War II
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Dachau, 19 km. (12 mi.) north of Munich, was one of the first Nazi
concentration camps, opened in March 1933 as a correction camp. Of the 225,000 said to have been incarcerated there between 1933 and 1945, 31,950 are officially said to have died but the total was almost certainly more. When liberated it was found to contain such well-known personalities as the Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, as well as prominent Germans such as
Halder,
Schacht, and
Niemöller. In November 1945 a
war crimes trial of the commandant, 40 guards, and one doctor, was held in the camp, and those responsible for the
Malmédy massacre were also tried there. About 500 medical experiments were carried out on inmates in 1941 and 1942. They included malaria trials and experiments on the reaction of a person being immersed in cold water for long periods.
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Dachau tries to cast off shadow of death
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/5/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Schloss. No time to buy a "Greetings from Dachau" postcard. Now the town wants to change...pounds 28,500), put up mainly by Dachau businesses, the firm has conducted a...recommendations. The name can stay, he says, but Dachau must embark on a public-relations offensive...
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Dateline Dachau
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter; 9/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Filipino Reporter 09-28-2000 Dateline Dachau: Only Hitler could have thought of exterminating the Jews By CRIS D. KABASARES DACHAU, Germany -- "Please don't ask me...the German people the establishment of Dachau(pronounced "da-how") as the first...
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OUMA Presents Dachau Before Dachau: European Artist Colony 1860-1914
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 2/27/2009; 617 words
; ...following the Second World War, the city of Dachau has been known for the tragedies that...1930's and early 1940's, the city of Dachau was home to a burgeoning artist colony...inspiring and often-overlooked period. Dachau Before Dachau: European Artist Colony...
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Remembering the Horrors of Dachau
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 3/30/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...30-2008 Remembering the Horrors of Dachau Host: LIANE HANSEN Time 12:00-13...for political prisoners in the town of Dachau, Germany. It was the beginning of one...some 10,000 Jews were interned at Dachau. (Soundbite of song "Dachau Song...
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The Dachau Museum: A Remembrance Of Lives Past
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/8/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...unchanged in this small Munich suburb. Dachau, a picturesque little village built in...leader Heinrich Himmler in 1933, the Dachau camp was converted to a museum in 1965...Each year thousands of visitors come to Dachau to see, to remember, to bear witness...
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Location, Location, Location; Fifty Years After the Nazi Defeat, Artists in Dachau find That Geography is Destiny
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/3/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...since his birth in 1945. The place is Dachau, an affluent, picturesque little German...Group D has sought to remind the world of Dachau's darkest years - a mission that is...Schachtner, another Group D artist and Dachau native. "I don't want to be an outsider...
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Prisoners freeing prisoners How Japanese Americans helped liberate Dachau 60 years ago.(Suburban Living)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 4/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Writer When American soldiers arrived at Dachau 60 years ago - on April 29, 1945 - Joe...His parents, on the day he liberated Dachau, were still living behind it. Ichiuji...against the United States. Standing at Dachau - where tens of thousands had died of...
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Dachau reunion: Horrors of camp, day of joy recalled
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/10/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...survivors of the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau reunited Saturday, remembering the joys...tortured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Dachau, five miles north of Munich, West Germany...center is a resistance museum named for a Dachau survivor and resistance leader who had...
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Dachau Plans Sister-City Agreement with Israeli Town.
Newspaper article from: Israel Faxx; 10/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...Online International The German town of Dachau plans to become a sister city with Rosh...with the darkest associations is arguably Dachau, location= of the Nazi's first concentration...comes as little surprise that plans by Dachau's mayor to twin his = town with the...
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'Dachau, Holocaust and U.S. Samurais: Nisei Soldiers First in Dachau?'.
PR Newswire; 4/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...Hawaii, April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In "Dachau, Holocaust and U.S. Samurais: Nisei Soldiers First in Dachau?" (now available through AuthorHouse...of the Holocaust, the history of the Dachau concentration camp and the role that Japanese...
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Dachau
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Dachau 'däkow Nazi concentration camp in Germany...12 miles north of Munich outside of the town of Dachau, was supplemented by 150 other camps throughout...and Germany. This system of camps was also called Dachau.
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concentration camps
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...and Bavarian Political Police opened the Dachau camp the same month. By that autumn the...SS, appointed the former commandant of Dachau, Theodor Eicke, as Inspector of Concentration...Lichtenburg (706), Moringen (49 women), Dachau (about 1,800), and Sachsenburg...
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Alexander Schindler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...going to be an engineer. But when he saw Jews emerging from Dachau in Germany — a concentration camp — at the...Germany, he traveled to Munich to find them. He ended up in Dachau, where the concentration camp was just releasing many of the...
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Frankl, Viktor Emil (1905-1997)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...arrested in September 1942 and spent nearly three years in several concentration camps, including a brief stay at Auschwitz, at Dachau (where he encountered Bruno Bettelheim), and at Thereisienstadt. Frankl's parents, brother, and wife died in the camps...
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Concentration Camps
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Psychologist Viktor Frankl developed his psychological perspective called logotherapy based upon his experiences in Auschwitz and Dachau. Italian theorist Giorgio Agamben has developed theories around the state of exception and the bare life to see the concentration...
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