Holocaust
AUSCHWITZ, DACHAU, the camps
AUSCHWITZ
DACHAU
The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. Heinrich Himmler, as police president of Munich, officially described the camp as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners." It was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of the town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of Munich in southern Germany.
Some pictures of the AUSCHWITZ CAMP, DACHAU CAMP
AUSCHWITZ
Barracks in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, after January 29, 1945.
DACHAU
The crematoria at Dachau concentration camp, soon after the liberation of the camp. Germany, after April 29, 1945.
AUSCHWITZ
DACHAU
THE CAMP
Between 1939 and 1945, at least seventy medical research projects involving cruel and often lethal experimentation on human subjects were conducted in Nazi concentration camps. These projects were carried out by established institutions within the Third Reich and fell into three areas: research aimed at improving the survival and rescue of German troops; testing of medical procedures and pharmaceuticals; and experiments that sought to confirm Nazi racial ideology. More than seven thousand victims of such medical experiments have been documented. Victims include Jews, Poles, Roma (Gypsies), political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, and Catholic priests.
Poland between 1940 and 1945
Poland 1940-1944
May of 1944
Hungarian Jews on their way to the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, May 1944.
Artifacts
Casting of Majdanek gas chamber door
Artifacts
Karel Bruml's concentration camp cap
Artifacts
Religious articles found on death march victim