The Shoah (1939–1945)
Opening of Dachau camp
22 mars 1933·Dachau
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The authorities of the new regime open, near Munich, in a former powder mill, the first permanent concentration camp in Germany; it serves as a model for all those that follow.
The Dachau camp, opened near Munich a few weeks after the seizure of power, is the first permanent concentration camp of the regime. It serves as an organizational model and training ground for guards who will subsequently be sent to other camps. Jews are interned there from the very first months, initially as political opponents, then as such; their conditions of detention are from the outset harsher than those of other categories.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.