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KZ-Gedenkstatte Dachau
Alte Römerstraße 75, 85221 Dachau, Germany Phone: +49 8131 669970About
1933, the same year as Hitler appointed Chancellor of the Reich, the camp at Dachau was given as the first concentration camp in Germany by Heinrich Himmler in order. The commander Theodor Eicke was largely responsible for the warehouse organization, which should be the model for all later concentration camps. He called the Dachau camp, the "school of violence" for members of the SS were at the beginning still mainly political prisoners in the concentration camp Dachau prison, came with the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws on racial discrimination fast new inmate groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses, immigrants or homosexuals, and later Roma, Gypsies and prisoners of war added. About 200,000 prisoners from 34 countries were kept by the Nazis caught there in the years between 1933 and 1945. On 29 April 1945, the camp was finally liberated by the U.S. Army.
