HISTORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST
DACHAU - STATE WITHIN A STATE

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From 1933 to 1945 the very name of one Bavarian town could arouse dread throughout Germany and its conquered territories.

In a region once known for its churches and philosophers, picture-postcard Dachau housed the first Nazi Concentration Camp behind whose electrified fences Hitler’s SS guards operated totally free from any civilized control. Usually imprisoned without trial were those whose race, religion, politics or way of life were anathema to Nazi ideology, to be beaten, experimented-upon, starved, tortured and worked to death in what one Camp Kommandant proudly described as a ‘School of Cruelty’.   

Records revealed that tens of thousands perished from disease, hunger, overwork or suicide in this model of Nazi efficiency, but unrecorded went the innumerable Soviet prisoners of war executed at the camp’s SS firing range. Surviving prisoners would tell of unspeakable cruelties perpetrated in conditions terrible beyond belief, but men still helped each other, and humanity survived.