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Photos: Dachau Concentration Camp
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Arbeit macht Frei. (Work makes you free.) This sign greeted inmates when they arrived at the camp entrance. (Photograph has been flipped left/right so words can be read.) ![]()
The Jourhaus was the only entrance into the camp. ![]()
A window of the Jourhaus. ![]()
Reconstructed barrack. All of the original barracks were destroyed for health reasons. ![]()
Inside one of the reconstructed barracks. ![]()
View of the Wirtschaftsbebäude from inside one of the reconstructed barracks. ![]()
View of barracks foundations. In the background a watchtower and the Orthodox and Protestant memorials may be seen. ![]()
Barracks foundations on the other side of the camp. The Jewish memorial is in the background. ![]()
Watchtower. ![]()
Watchtower. ![]()
Section of outer wall and watchtower. ![]()
Barbed wire at top of fence. ![]()
The Wirtschaftsgebäude. This building contained the kitchen, laundry, storage rooms, and the notorious shower baths where the SS would torture prisoners by flogging them and hanging them at the stake. ![]()
The Wirtschaftsgebäude. ![]()
The Lagerarrest (bunker or camp prison) is located behind the Wirtschaftsgebäude. ![]()
Hallway of the Dachau camp prison before recent renovation. ![]()
Hallway of the Dachau camp prison after renovation. ![]()
Door to one of the cells in the camp prison. ![]()
Door to one of the cells in the camp prison. ![]()
Door to one of the cells in the camp prison. ![]()
Inside one of the cells in the Dachau camp prison. ![]()
Inside one of the cells in the Dachau camp prison. ![]()
Inside one of the cells in the Dachau camp prison. ![]()
Prison cell with portable altar. Many of the clergy were held at Dachau. ![]()
Prison cell with portable altar. ![]()
View out the window of the Dachau prison. The building on the left is the Wirtschaftsgebäude. ![]()
Large Crematorium (Barrack X). This building was built in 1942 when the smaller crematorium built in 1940 proved too small. ![]()
Small Crematorium. ![]()
Interior of Small Crematorium. ![]()
Wall where prisoners were shot.
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