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In March 1933, Heinrich Himmler, who was then the police chief of Munich, went to the old town of Dachau in upper Bavaria, southeastern Germany, just 16 kilometers northwest of Munich, to investigate an abandoned armaments factory, the main purpose of which was to investigate whether it was suitable for the placement of an increasing number of "prisoners". Under Himmler's personal supervision, the horror prison, which was about to become a model german concentration camp, was put in for 200 prisoners on March 22, 1933. Himmler, on the other hand, publicized the newly established prison, claiming that it could accommodate 5,000 political prisoners.
(Photo 1: Aerial view of the Dachau concentration camp)
Hitler, who was now trying to build his dictatorship, was clearly not interested in setting up a large-capacity ordinary prison for dissidents, and expressed his view that he did not want Dachau prison to be just an ordinary place of detention. Himmler, who was good at drilling camps, expressed great support for the idea of the great dictator, and the first prisoners to arrive soon experienced unnatural deaths, which were quickly investigated due to the unstable Nazi dictatorship at this time, although the investigation was eventually dismissed by the enormous pressure exerted by the Nazi hierarchy. But the head of Dachau Prison was therefore transferred elsewhere to calm the fermentation of the tense.
(Photo II: Himmler inspecting the Dachau concentration camp on 8 March 1936)
Although the unnatural deaths of prisoners in Dachau Prison were not resolved under the cover of the Nazis, and the persecution of prisoners in Dachau Prison was temporarily stopped, under the appearance of seeming calm, Dachau Prison completed the transformation from a prison to a concentration camp. In June 1933, the bloodthirsty executioner Theodor Ike became the new commander of Dachau Prison, and under his auspices, the Dachau concentration camp developed a strict management system, where not only prisoners were completely isolated from the world, but even the guards were disciplined. Theodor Ike's work was soon appreciated by the Nazi hierarchy, and the Dachau concentration camp became a model for Nazi Germany to set up a concentration camp.
(Photo 3: Barracks in dachau concentration camp)
In the beginning, the Dachau concentration camp was only used to imprison dissidents who disagreed with Nazi rule, but with the increasing stabilization of Nazi Germany's bloody rule and the expansion of foreign expansion ambitions, a large number of innocent people that the Nazis wanted to eradicate, including homeless people and mentally ill people, were also thrown into the concentration camp. These people who are thrown into the concentration camps are not only subject to harsh labor exploitation, but also can be taken away at any time to become victims of medical experiments. In 1937, the Dachau concentration camp was rebuilt, the original building was demolished, a large number of slave workers were detained here, and in the extremely harsh environment, in August 1938, a new concentration camp containing 32 cells was built, and in order to dispose of the large number of corpses that were maimed to death, the Dachau concentration camp was also equipped with an efficiently operating incineration area.
(Photo 4: Horrific crematoria in the Dachau concentration camp)
Between 1933 and 1945, the total number of people held in the Dachau concentration camp, including prisoners of war, reached 188,000, and the number of kills that could be confirmed during the period was as high as 32,000, but many more were never known, and according to records, a large number of Soviet prisoners of war were executed in the square in front of the barracks and canteen not long after they were delivered to the Dachau concentration camp. The Dachau concentration camp was liberated on April 29, 1945, and the American troops arriving at the camp were shocked by the large number of evidence of the massacre that had not yet been destroyed, and could no longer contain their anger, and immediately executed a group of surrendered concentration camp guards.
(Photo 5: The slogan "Labor makes people free" on the Dachau concentration camp)
From 1945 to 1948, the role of the camp was really brought to play, a large number of SS elements were detained in the places where they had been a blessing, waiting for justice, 48 years later, the Dachau concentration camp was used as a military base by the United States, and finally completely closed in 1960, with the support of some survivors, the Dachau concentration camp was reopened as a memorial to remind future generations not to forget the ugly scars of human history.
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