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Dachau
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Concentration camp
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/KZDachau1945.jpg/225px-KZDachau1945.jpg) American truips guardin the main entrance tae Dachau juist efter liberation, 1945
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Coordinates
| 48°16′12″N
11°28′06″E
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48.2699°N 11.4683°E
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48.2699; 11.4683
Coordinates
:
48°16′12″N
11°28′06″E
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48.2699°N 11.4683°E
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48.2699; 11.4683
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Location
| Upper Bavarie
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Soothren Germany
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Operatit bi
| German
Schutzstaffel
(SS),
U.S. Airmy
(as internment camp efter Warld War II)
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Oreeginal uise
| Poleetical prison
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Operational
| 1933?1945
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Inmates
| Poles, Roushies, Ukrainians, French, Yugoslavs, Czechs, Germans, Austricks, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, Gypsies
[1]
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Nummer o inmates
| ower 188,000 (estimatit)
[2]
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Killed
| 31,951 (reportit)
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Liberatit bi
| Unitit States
, 29 Aprile 1945
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Wabsteid
| Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Steid
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Dachau concentration camp
(
German
:
Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau
,
IPA:
[?daxa?]
) wis the first o the
Nazi concentration camps
opened in
Germany
, intendit tae hauld poleetical prisoners.