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20 unusual facts about Dachau concentration camp


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.

Arnstein Abbey

The Superior and Vice-Provincial of the monastery, Pater Alfons Spix, died in 1942 in the Dachau concentration camp, because he let the Polish forced laborers participate in worship and gave them breakfast.

Deaths-Head Revisited

Gunther Lutze, a former captain in the SS, returns to the ruins of Dachau concentration camp to relive the memories of his time as its commandant during World War II.

Francisco Macías Nguema

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

Italian African Police

The commander and founder of the PAI, General Marraffa, was captured by the nazis and deported to the Dachau concentration camp, where he died.

James A. Clark, Jr.

He saw action in Europe during World War II, and was among the forces that helped evacuate survivors of the Dachau concentration camp.

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.

Jim Kincaid

Three D-Day veterans from the Norfolk area accompanied Jim to several historic World War II sites, including Weymouth, England, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, the Dachau concentration camp, and Margraten in the Netherlands, site of the largest American cemetery in Europe.

Karl Fritzsch

He wanted to make a career in the SS and served at the Dachau concentration camp in 1934.

McStroke

The slaughterhouse is referred to as "Dacow" which is a reference to the Dachau concentration camp.

Old Wicked Songs

Hoffman then tells Mashkan his plans to go to the opera to experience joy and to then visit the Dachau concentration camp for sadness.

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.

Pastor Hall

The film was based on the true story of a pastor who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi Party.

Red Sector A

(His father, Morris Weinrib, was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp a few weeks later.)

Sally Quinn

Though he was not present, his regiment liberated Dachau concentration camp; he arrived the next day, when he heard the news.

Scott Corbett

He was one of the first correspondents to enter the Dachau concentration camp in Germany just before the end of the war.

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.

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"


Feldafing

During the Nazi era, Feldafing was the site of an elite school of the Nazi Party, the "Reichsschule Feldafing", and of a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp.

Gerhard Rose

During the war, he carried out experiments on the prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp and Buchenwald, in which he investigated malaria and typhus.

Hermann Häfker

He fled 1936 to Prague, was brought to Dachau concentration camp after the German invasion and died in the Concentration Camp Mauthausen.

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.

Karl Leisner

The Blessed Karl Leisner (28 February 1915, Rees – 12 August 1945, Planegg, Germany) was a Roman Catholic priest interned in the Dachau concentration camp.

Konstantinos Bakopoulos

They were deported to various concentration camps in Germany (including Fort Königstein and Dachau prison), where they were interned for two years as hostages, until their release by the Fifth U.S. Army at the end of the war.

Kovno Ghetto

On July 8, 1944, the Germans evacuated the camp, deporting most of the remaining Jews to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany or to the Stutthof camp, near Danzig, on the Baltic coast.

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.

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.

Štěpán Trochta

During the war Bishop Trochta was a leader of resistance against the Nazis and a known friend to Christians, Jews and Communists during years as a prisoner in Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps.