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Dachau 'däkow Nazi concentration camp in Germany, operating from March 10, 1933 to 1945. Of the at least 160,000 prisoners that were held in the main camp, at least 32,000 died there from disease, malnutrition, mistreatment, and Nazi medical experiments.
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World War II the main camp, 12 miles north of Munich outside of the town of Dachau, was supplemented by 150 other camps throughout Austria and Germany. This system of camps was also called Dachau.
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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; 624 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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concentration camp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...killed in gas chambers. Among the most notorious Nazi camps liberated by U.S. and British troops in 1945 were Buchenwald, Dachau, and Belsen. The term has also been applied to the U.S. relocation centers for American citizens of Japanese origin and...
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Roe et al. v. Wade: 1973
Book article from: Great American Trials
...Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion, had his life threatened and his mailbox filled with letters calling him "Butcher of Dachau, murderer, Pontius Pilate, [and] Adolph Hitler." Each of the other justices received thousands of letters of condemnation...
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