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    Plaque at the entrance
    Picture of the 'parade' grounds, where the prisoners stood for roll call, for several hours each day.Gas chamberCrematoriumMemorials at sites where ashes of thousands of prisoners were buried.Washroom for 1 barrack of 200 - 2,000 prisoners

    Dachau Concentration Camp

    June 8, 2018 in Austria ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    The first concentration camp built. Open from 1933 - 1945. It was the model for all future camps. There were no mass exterminations there, but it was where they experimented with all the methods they used in other camps. 31,000 people were killed there. The camp held more than 200,000 over 12 years.Read more