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14 unusual facts about Dachau


Aloys Fleischmann

His father, Aloys Fleischmann senior of Dachau (1880–1964), organist and choir master at the Cathedral of St. Mary and St Anne, Cork and his mother, Tilly Fleischmann née Swertz (1882–1967), born in Cork to German parents, pianist and piano teacher.

Cast a Giant Shadow

Marcus, who parachuted into occupied France during World War II, helped to organize the relief mission for Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by American troops, is initially viewed with suspicion by some Haganah soldiers.

Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter

Nearly 100 of the refugees had been imprisoned in Buchenwald or Dachau.

Franz Augsberger

Franz Augsberger served with the Austrian Legion from April 1932 to October 1933 when he left the Legion's base at Lechfeld, South of Augsburg, and transferred to a training area near Dachau, and was subsequently promoted to SS-Unterscharführer (Junior Squad Leader) on 20 April 1934, and to SS-Oberscharführer (Senior Squad Leader) on 1 June 1934.

Hadassah Lieberman

Her mother, Ella (Wieder) Freilich, had survived both Auschwitz and Dachau.

Herman Bailey

Bailey created an illustration featuring an Israeli firing squad shooting a group of Arabs with a caption reading: "This is the Gaza Strip, Palestine, not Dachau, Germany".

Hilary Paweł Januszewski

Hilary Paweł Januszewski, O.Carm (June 11, 1907; Krajenki – March 25, 1945; Dachau concentration camp), was a Carmelite friar of the Ancient Observance and Catholic priest, who sent by the Nazi authorities in occupied Poland to the concentration camp at Dachau, where he managed to survive until 1945.

Józef Cebula

On 4 May 1940, the Oblate novices at Markowice were arrested by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau in Upper Bavaria, Germany.

Leonhard von Hohenhausen

Von Hohenhausen was born in Dachau as son of Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Hohenhausen aka "Peregrinus" and Maria Anna, née Freiin von Wittorf.

Michael Elkins

He regained his faith, he said in the same broadcast, when he was at the liberation of Dachau in April 1945 as an American serviceman.

No Less Than Victory

It also covers the Allied discoveries of concentration camps at Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau.

Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab

In the 1930s she wrote a number of songs with Dutch text, and after World War II she composed Monument in 1946 in honor of her son John who was murdered in Dachau.

Sisters of Life

The Sisters of Life were an order first conceived of by Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor of New York, on a visit to the remains of a Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany.

Tracks to Terezín

Death march together with his father to the concentration camp Dachau-Kaufering IV.


After Dachau

The Nazis had won World War II and purged their empire of all non-whites, then rewrote history so as to say that Dachau, a concentration camp, was instead a battle with Adolf Hitler as its hero.

Conrad I, Duke of Merania

His second wife, Matilda of Falkenstein, gave him one son, Conrad II, who inherited Merania and, in 1172, Dachau.

Erich Otto Engel

Erich Otto Engel (29 September 1866, Alt-Malisch Frankfurt - 11 February 1944, Dachau) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

Francisco Boix

Boix was also a witness in the military American trial which took place in Dachau against 61 criminals from the German Nazi camp Mauthausen.

Francisco Macías Nguema

During his presidency, his country was nicknamed "the Dachau of Africa".

Hermann Pister

Pister was arrested by the Americans in 1945; put on trial for war crimes by the American Military Tribunal at Dachau with 30 other defendants where he was charged with participation in a "common plan" to violate the Laws and Usages of war of the Hague Convention of 1907 and the third Geneva Convention of 1929, in regard to the rights of Prisoners of War.

Horst Schumann

edited by Wolfgang Benz and Barbara Distel, published for the Comite International de Dachau, Brussels.

Jan Kobylański

In 2005, Mikołaj Lizut wrote in the Gazeta Wyborcza that Jan Kobylański falsified documents of the Red Cross, that he was a prisoner at Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Gusen, Gross Rosen, and Dachau concentration camps.

Januszewski

Hilary Paweł Januszewski (1907–1945), Carmelite, friar, priest; survived in the camp of Dachau until 1945

Jean Bernard

Father Jean Bernard (1907–1994), Catholic priest who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau

Maislinger

Adolf Maislinger (1903-1985), a well-known prisoner of the Dachau concentration camp

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

It was at the time of this voyage in 1933, two months after the accession of Adolf Hitler to power, when she reported on the stereotypes of the concentration camps of Oranienburg and Dachau, published as of her return to France.

Martin Weiss

Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905–1946), Dachau concentration camp commandant

Max Mannheimer

During campaigning for the German federal election, 2013, he invited Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Dachau, making her the first chancellor to visit a former concentration camp.

München-Schwabing labor camp

She had a close relationship with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, and it was due to him that she was appointed welfare sister for the Waffen-SS at Dachau in 1933.

Oscar Beregi, Jr.

The show featured Beregi as a former Dachau commandant who returns to the concentration camp to relive old memories, only to be confronted by the spirits of prisoners he brutalized.

Paul Rassinier

He also describes his visits to Dachau and Mauthausen, noting that in both places, he got contradictory stories on how the gas chambers were supposed to have worked, and for the first time expresses his doubts on the existence of gas chambers and a Nazi policy of extermination.

Philipp of Bavaria

Philipp Wilhelm of Bavaria (22 September 1576, Munich - 18 May 1598, Dachau) was a German cardinal.

Shutter Island

The novel is interspersed with graphic descriptions of World War II and Dachau which Teddy helped to liberate.

The Conspirators

She tells him that she married Hugo after he rescued her from Dachau.

Thomas Ballantyne Martin

While a Member of Parliament, Martin visited Germany where he met leading Nazis Hitler, Goering and Goebbels; he was invited to a Nuremberg rally, but also visited Dachau.

Topf and Sons

After 1939, and the demonstration or "proof of concept" that the firm could design an incinerator which would handle large numbers of corpses, Nazi officials further contracted Topf and Sons to provide similar incineration furnaces for the Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen, Gusen Concentration Camps, and larger industrial incinerators especcialy designed for Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

Year of tha Boomerang

"It's dark now in Dachau and I'm screamin' from within/'Cause I'm still locked in tha doctrines of tha right/Enslaved by Dogma, ya talk about my birthright/Yet at every turn I'm runnin' into Hells gates/So I grip the cannon like Fanon and pass tha shells to my classmates"