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Dachau Opens
The first permanent concentration camp in Germany opens. It is called Dachau. Dachau is located on grounds of abandoned munitions factory near northeastern part of Munich. Opened a camp for political prisoners. Online Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKl_YV8rl80 -
New Prisoners
New prisoner groups are sent to the camp e.g. Jehova’s Witnesses, homosexuals, emigrants -
Heinrich Himmler becomes Chief of the German Police
It is now the beginning of constructing a system of concentration camps. Terror in the camp is intensified. -
Mass Arrests
During mass arrests thousands are taken into “preventive custody” and sent to concentration camps. Start the construction of a new camp with a capacity for 6,000 prisoners. -
Attack on Poland
Start of the Second World War. Deportation of hundreds of Sinti and Roma to the Dachau Concentration Camp. -
Wannsee Conference
The conference was on the Final Solution. Officers, officials, lawyers and doctors all met without Hitlers knowlage. "Invalid Transports" – more than 2,500 prisoners murdered with poison gas at Hartheim Castle near Linz. It was also the start of medical experiments on prisoners. -
Total War
Forced labour is radicalized in order to secure the "Final Victory". Start of the installation of more than 150 subsidiary camps in which the prisoners were subjected to perform forced labour for the armaments industry. -
Allies Start to Come
The Western Allies land in Normandy, Russian troops reach the eastern border of Germany. About10,000 Jewish prisoners are killed "through work" in subsidiary camps. At the end of 1944, over 63,000 prisoners are in the Dachau concentration camp and its subsidiary camps. The catastrophic living conditions lead to the outbreak of a typhus epidemic. -
Liberation of the camp by US Army troops
Just before the liberation thousands of prisoners die of typhus, in the course of evacuation marches or as a result of malnutrition
Founding of an International Prisoner Committee also known as the CID. -
Unconditional surrender
