Dachau: A Deadliest Concentration Camp

In the early 1930s, the residents of the picturesque city of Dachau, Germany, were completely unaware of the horrific events about to unfold that would overshadow their city still today. The citizens of Dachau were oblivious that their city was going to become the origin of concentration camps and of the Holocaust, the mass murder committed by the Nazi s in World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp, which would soon be placed on the edge of their community, would serve as a model for all Nazi extermination camps. This perfect prototype of a Nazi killing machine has come to represent the start of the horror-filled Holocaust and the Nazi's determination to achieve a perfect society during World War II.

Nine years after Dachau opened, the crematorium area was located beside the main camp. The old crematorium and the new crematorium was included. There was also a gas chamber, however there isn’t any credible evidence that the gas chamber in Barrack X was used to murder human beings. The gas chambers were actually for something called “selection”. Selection was when all of the Jews at the camp would go to the gas chambers to be evaluated. If a Jew was marked down as not strong enough to do work or too sick then they were sent to the Hartheim "euthanasia" killing center near Linz, Austria. Many Jewish people were killed this way. The crematoria are was also where the SS camp guards would kill prisoners; they would also kill the prisoners at the firing range. Another way that the Jewish People and prisoners were killed at Dachau was when German physicians would do medical experiment on the prisoners “including high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber, malaria and tuberculosis experiments, hypothermia experiments, and experiments testing new medications. Prisoners were also forced to test methods of making seawater potable and of halting excessive bleeding” ("Dachau"). During this process there were hundreds of prisoners left dead, or with permanent disabilities. During World War II all of the Jews were forced to do work “Prisoners were forced to do this work, starting with the

During the Nazi Holocaust, multiple working and death camps were created to hold the captured Jews. While the Jews lived in this camp, they were tortured, mistreated, worked to death and eventually were put to death by either execution by firearm or were put into a death camp which exterminated the Jews using poison gas. The Nazi Party had developed many death camps in the central european area including the 6 death camps of Poland; Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.

The Holocaust was a systematic murder of six million Jews during the war. Auschwitz was the largest death camp in the Holocaust. The camp was opened in 1940 as a prison, the camp was opened for Polish criminals and Prisoners of War. The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy; there were twelve million people murdered all together in the Holocaust, but at the notorious camp called Auschwitz two million people were murdered

Throughout the life at Dachau concentration camp, isolation was a huge deal. Once the prisoners arrived at the camp, they were separated boys and girls and their personal belongs were taken from them. The younger kids and their mom, and the older people were sent straight to the gas chamber because they believed that they were not able to do any labor. There were numerous amounts detention buildings in Dachau. Shunt room and bunkers were two that they used often. Bunkers isolated rebellious and defiant prisoners, which there were harsher prison conditions, torture and murder. Now the shunt room was admission for the prisoners, it was brutal and was meant for the prisoners loss of rights, liberty, and human autonomy. For jews they had a different

Prisoners were starving, they like skeletons and they were locked up in cages like animals. When the American Army liberated Dachau, people were thankful and hopeful. “Then suddenly people (few could call them that) came from all directions. They were dirty, starved skeletons with torn tattered clothes and they screamed and hollered and cried.” (remember.org) People were grateful for getting liberated and they were either dead or as skinny as a skeleton. The Nazis treated people like animals because they thought they were apart of a higher power and that was

The Nazis always kept expanding and enhancing their concentration camps, resulting in the many camps that live in peoples’ memories today. One of the very first concentration camps that many were sent to was Dachau. Dachau opened in 1933 just after Hitler took power in Germany. Dachau, at first, only “housed” political prisoners, but as time progressed, it became a camp that is filled with political prisoners, Jews, and Gypsies. The Nazis tried in any way to send as many people to the concentration camps as they could. After the “Night of the Broken Glass”, in which many Jewish homes, schools, and businesses were vandalized, over 30,000 Jews were sent to Dachau. Dachau became really overcrowded and many

Auschwitz Birkenau located in Oswiecim Poland, The holocaust began in May 26, 1940. Over 1.1 million people had died at birkenau many people had died because of hunger, disease, horrible conditions, and the gas chambers. The holocaust began shortly after world war 2 began, hitler and the nazi party rose to power due to political power circumstances. Germans could not believe the defeat that had happened at world war 1, the government in germany so bad with money they needed somebody that could help them out and fix germany.

At extermination camps, the Nazis conducted many medical experiments on the prisoners that resulted in many deaths. Between 1939 and 1945 medical research projects involving cruel and often lethal experimentation on human subjects were performed. These projects were supported, well-known organizations in the Third Reich and were categorized into three fields: research intended at cultivating the endurance and rescue of German troops, testing of medical techniques and medications, and experiments that pursued to approve Nazi cultural belief. More than seven thousand victims of these cruel medical experiments have been acknowledged. Targets of the experiments included Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, and Catholic priests (Medical Experiments ).

A bomb had hit Dachau on April 9,1945 which knocked out all the running water and electricity.Water had to be brought to the prisoners at Dachau through trucks.There wasn't any running water at Dachau to flush toilets or anything like that.However the prisoners did not starve because there were 5 trucks filled with food.There was a food shortage at the town of Dachau to

Doctors would conduct these high altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. The Dachau concentration camp was one of the first Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany. It mostly held political prisoners or victims who spoke up against Nazi Germany. They would place inmates in low-pressure chambers. This would simulate altitudes as high as 68,000 feet and monitored their physiological response as they died.

The first Nazi concentration camp was built on March 10th, 1933 in Dachau, Germany (“Dachau.” Britannia School. 2015). The empty munitions factory in Dachau, provided the space and isolation needed for the newly formed concentration camp (“Dachau”. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1990). Dachau, the concentration camp, is located on the outskirts of the small town Dachau, about twelve miles north of Munich, Germany (“Dachau.” Britannia School. 2015). The camp was officially opened on March 22, 1933 and used mainly for political prisoners (Syndor, 2015).

The gas chamber was a small confined room where jews were gassed with Zyklon B. The rooms were precisely 30 m long, 7 m wide, and 2.41 m high, giving a floor space of 210 m2. The ceiling consisted of about 22 cm reinforced concrete covered with 45 cm of earth. The gas chambers could hold up to about 2,000 jews in each one. The first gas chamber was built at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and elsewhere.

The first Nazi concentration camp was built in March, 1933. Named Dachau, it opened in the grounds of the abandoned factory near the north eastern part of the town Dachau. According to the article, “searing memories of Nazi Germany’s First concentration camp,” by Soraya Sarhaddi Neison, “The original plan was to house 5,000 political prisoners,” However, an “SS leader Henrich Himmer extended Dachau’s mandate to forced labor, the prisoners of war.” This states that the camps didn’t start out as deadly as it came to be. However, survivor, Max Mannheimer, states “Dachau was less evil than other camps I experienced.” So, the camp was indeed deadly but not as deadly than the other

Over the course of twelve-years there were 12 official commanders of Dachau. The camp was “cut” in two, one section being for “living” aka camp, and the other side was for burning bodies, or cremating them. On the camp side there were many buildings, kitchen, army housing, laundry, showers, etc. But one stood out in particular, a cruel building, one that was for Medical experiments.