Dachau

Nazi Genocide Lecture Notes

1. Nuremburg Laws

Laws passed by Hitler to single out Jews Must be German

only Jews not allowed

to marry Germans Non-Germans are

non-citizens

2. Kristallnacht

“Night of Broken Glass”

First action against Jews

At the end of one night Towns and villages

were ransacked (8,000 Jewish shops were destroyed)

30,000 Jewish men taken to concentration camps

1668 synagogues were ransacked (267 set on fire)

The Burning of a synagogue, a Jewish church

2. Kristallnacht

3. Ghettoes

The Nazis forced Jews to the walled off towns.

The population of the Warsaw Ghetto was 440,000 people.

37% of the population living in 4.5% of the city.

3. Ghettoes

3. Ghettoes

4. “Final Solution”

In the last days of Nazi Germany, Hitler and his advisors devised the “extermination” of the Jews by sending them to death camps.

DACHAUNazi Work Camp

Now a monument to the tragedies caused by the Nazis

Visited on April 16, 2006

DACHAU

This camp is considered one of the worst camps before the war began. It is a work camp, and often times, this is where the Jews were sent before they went to “death camps” to be executed.

Map of the Complex

The train tracks that would bring up the Jews

4. Gate into Camp

Writing on Entrance Gate“ARBEIT MACHT FREI”

“WORK WILL SET YOU FREE”

2. Gate into CampView from inside camp

2. Barracks

2. Barracks

2. Barracks

Inside BarracksSleeping Bunks

Inside BarracksSleeping Bunks

Inside BunkerLocker Room

Inside BarracksBathroom

Inside BunkerWashing Sinks

View of former barracks

1. Main Camp Road

9 - Guard tower

view on the path to

gas chamber

and ovens

11

Waiting Room

Gas Chamber

The Ovens

LEGEND FOR NUMBERS

1. Main Camp Road

2. Barracks

3. Roll Call Place

4. Gate into Camp

5. Administration Building

6. Disinfection Hut

7. Green House

8. Barbed wire fence

9. Six guard towers

10. Bunker (prison)

WHAT HAS CHANGED?

DACHAU is a work camp, not to be compared with the death camps like Aushwitz. However, the camp remains today as a reminder to the people of the world what human beings are capable of doing!