okay so when i lived in germany
i bought this book and the general kind
of reminded me of that right now is an
appropriate time to read it
so on here it looks like it says one one
zero
six zero and
this is
it kind of almost looks like an ancestry
tree
of sorts um
it's got all these names mentioned in
here adora what
is that's kind of odd dora moringen
um gross rosen
tri treblinka stutoff
verizon steight flosenberg dacao
okay so
concentration camp daco 1933 1933-1945
so i'm going to read about this in here
i i'm going to read the whole book this
is the introduction
this catalog is intended to accompany
the visitor to the daco memorial museum
through the exhibition and to provide
with a reference guide to all the
documents displayed
on the basis of currently available
material an attempt is made to present
the history of the dachau concentration
camp from 1933
until 1945 to show how it
came into being and how it was developed
during the nazi era
firstly as a training center and then as
a model for the ss in the perfection of
the inhuman concentration camp system
a training ground for the extermination
camps of auschwitz
magstangenic treblinka etc
although daca was not intended as a mass
extermination camp
hunger and illness arbitrary killings
and mass
executions along with the ss doctors
pseudo-scientific experiments resulted
in the continual extermination of
prisoners
in addition more than three thousand
sick and handicapped
dachau prisoners were murdered in the
gas chambers
of the hartheim euthanasia institution
near lynce many more especially jewish
prisoners
were transported to extermination camps
as early as march 21st 1933
heinrich himmler then police
commissioner of munich
announced to the press that the first
concentration camp for communist
and social democratic functionaries
was to be opened on march 22 in daca
originally planned to accommodate 5 000
prisoners the camp was primarily
intended to eliminate
all political opposition
in the course of time in addition to
jews
gypsies and anti-nazi clergymen any
citizen who made themselves unpopular
with the regime
were imprisoned here an attempt was made
to discriminate against these political
detainees by introducing
common criminals homosexuals and
so-called anti-socials into the
concentration camp
in 1937 owing to continuously increase
numbers prison labor was used to enlarge
the camp
the ratio of various nationalities
between
1939 and 1945
reflected the course of the war as soon
as
the german army had invaded a country
the first prisoner transports began to
arrive
in these occupied countries the germans
tried to stifle
all oppositions by deporting all
intellectual
and political leaders jewish
citizens were persecuted everywhere
deportation was greatly accelerated
during the last years of the war as it
was provided the basis of the slave
labor force necessary
for the german armaments industry
on april 29th 1945 the liberators of
dachau camp
found more than 30 000 survivors
of 31 different nationalities in the dis
disastrously overcrowded barracks and as
many
again in subsidiary camps attended to
dachau
during its 12 years of existence 206
000 prisoners were registered in daca
the number of non-registered arrivals
can no longer be ascertained
during this period of time 31
951 deaths were registered however the
total number of deaths in dachau
including the victims of
individual and mass executions and the
final death marches will never be known
before the libertarian of the camp the
committee
international day dachau was secretly
constituted
its aim being to prevent the last minute
extermination of the prisoners planned
by the ss
during the weeks after the liberation
the committee played
an important role in providing for the
survivors
taking care of the sick and finally and
organizing
the repatriation of released prisoners
members of the ss
captured by the u.s army were then held
in custody
in dachau camp until the end
of the dakka war crimes trial
afterwards refugees and displaced
persons were housed in these barracks
some for a long time as 18 years until
they were
offered adequate housing accommodation
the first international meeting
of former dachau prisoners took place in
1955
on the 10th anniversary of the camps
liberation in view
of the deteriorating condition of the
camp
it was unanimously decided to
reestablish the committee
international de daca in order to insist
on behalf of all ex-prisoners that a
worthy and dignified memorial
be set up in 1960
a provisional museum was opened in the
crematorium building as a
first result of these joint efforts
finally on may 9
1965 the opening ceremony of the present
memorial site and museum took place
the committee international de daca was
responsible for its concept
and planning and the bavarian government
for its financing
consulting architect renee van awarra
former dachau prisoner number 113087
attached to the museum
are cinema archives and a
specialist library appendix it must be
emphasized that this documentation
is based only on documents still
accessible
many incidents are no longer verifiable
as shortly before the liberation the ss
destroyed a substantial part of the
records
that were incriminating them in such
a documentation is almost impossible to
portray acts of resistance and
solidarity among the prisoners
themselves
as part as apart from prisoners
correspondence was with families which
was
of course strictly censored you see that
word in there strictly censored
there exists no written evidence
relating to their camp
experiences the documents on display
which are
originated during the nazi era voice the
spirit of
the nazi statue vocabulary
and expressions used are typical of nazi
terminology
photographs of other concentration camps
displayed in the museum
which are also applicable to the history
of daco
are always acknowledged as such
provisions have been made for future
additions
to the documentation as new material and
information becomes available
according to a list of nationalities
found among ss documents
in accordance with nazi terminology
countries such as lativa and the ukraine
were classified as separate states
whereas austria was regarded as part of
the german reich
by present-day classification there were
prisoners from 27 different countries
interned in dhaka there is a
commemorative plaque for each of these
countries in the entrance hall of the
museum
at this time of the setting up
of the memorial all the barrick
buildings were
derelict and therefore had to be
demolished
two of the huts were then reconstructed
of the others only the foundations were
left
we'll read more
