Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site is a reminder of recent German-Jewish history. Visitors view the remains of one of the first concentration camps built by the Nazis in the build up to the Second World War.
The only buildings still remaining are a reconstructed hut showing the pitiful living conditions of the inmates and the gas chambers, built in 1942 but unused due to the advanced progression of the war by the time of their completion. They remain a poignant proof of the technology of death eradicated by the fleeing Nazis in many of the other camps.
Constructed in 1933, Dachau was to become the 'model' for the Nazi concentration camp system. Initially intended to house political prisoners and Nazi objectors, the camp grew to accommodate rising numbers of Jews from the Nazi-occupied areas of Eastern and Western Europe.
More than 30,000 deaths were registered in Dachau during the Holocaust, but it is thought that many more died simply from cold, illness and hunger - a small percentage of the six million deaths estimated overall.
Constructed in 1933, Dachau was to become the 'model' for the Nazi concentration camp system. Initially intended to house political prisoners and Nazi objectors, the camp grew to accommodate rising numbers of Jews from the Nazi-occupied areas of Eastern and Western Europe.
More than 30,000 deaths were registered in Dachau during the Holocaust, but it is thought that many more died simply from cold, illness and hunger - a small percentage of the six million deaths estimated overall.
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