Dachau

E10523

Nazi concentration camp extermination-through-labor camp

Dachau was one of Nazi Germany’s first and most infamous concentration camps, serving as a model for the camp system and a site of widespread persecution, forced labor, and mass murder during the Holocaust.

Aliases (6)

Dachau concentration camp ×71
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site museum ×1
Dachau concentration camp memorial site ×1
Dachau subcamps ×1
Dachau, Bavaria ×1
Konzentrationslager Dachau ×1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi concentration camp → extermination-through-labor camp →
administeredBy	Inspektorat der Konzentrationslager → SS Main Economic and Administrative Office →
commemorates	victims of National Socialism →
convertedTo	memorial site →
country	Nazi Germany →
estimatedDeaths	over 40000 →
estimatedPrisoners	over 200000 →
hasFeature	barbed wire fences → barracks → crematorium → gas chamber → roll-call square → watchtowers →
hasGermanName	Konzentrationslager Dachau →
hasMuseum	Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site museum →
languageOfName	German →
liberatedBy	U.S. 42nd Infantry Division → U.S. 45th Infantry Division →
liberatedOn	1945-04-29 →
locatedIn	Dachau, Bavaria → Germany → Upper Bavaria →
memorialOpenedInYear	1965 →
near	Munich →
notableFor	extermination through labor → medical experiments on high-altitude effects → medical experiments on hypothermia → medical experiments on malaria → systematic brutality →
openedBy	Heinrich Himmler →
openedInYear	1933 →
openedOn	1933-03-22 →
operatedBy	SS-Totenkopfverbände → Schutzstaffel →
partOf	Nazi concentration camp system →
perpetrator	Nazi regime → SS personnel →
role	model for later Nazi concentration camps →
timePeriod	Holocaust → World War II →
usedFor	forced labor → medical experiments on prisoners → persecution of Jews → persecution of Roma and Sinti → persecution of clergy → persecution of homosexuals → persecution of political opponents → persecution of so-called asocials → political repression →
victimGroup	Czech prisoners → French prisoners → German prisoners → Jews → Polish prisoners → Roma and Sinti → Soviet prisoners of war → clergy → homosexuals → political prisoners →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bruno Bettelheim ("Dachau concentration camp") → Spanish Republicans ("Dachau concentration camp") → Viktor Frankl ("Dachau concentration camp") →	imprisonedIn
Holocaust → Nazi Germany → Nazi camp system ("Dachau concentration camp") →	notableCamp
Upper Bavaria → Upper Bavaria ("Dachau concentration camp memorial site") →	contains
Gustav von Kahr ("Dachau concentration camp") → Otto Dietrich →	placeOfDeath
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma →	birthPlace
Kristallnacht ("Dachau concentration camp") →	concentrationCampDestination
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma →	deathPlace
Auschwitz death marches ("Dachau concentration camp") →	destination
Kurt Schuschnigg ("Dachau concentration camp") →	detainedIn
Dachau concentration camp ("Konzentrationslager Dachau") →	hasGermanName
Dachau concentration camp ("Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site museum") →	hasMuseum
42nd Infantry Division ("Dachau concentration camp") →	liberated
Dachau concentration camp ("Dachau, Bavaria") →	locatedIn
Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma →	placeOfBurial
Viktor Frankl ("Dachau subcamps") →	survived
Léon Blum ("Dachau concentration camp") →	wasDeportedTo