"The President of the Munich police has informed the press that the first concentration camp holding 5,000 political prisoners is to be organised within the next few days near the town of Dachau in Bavaria." - The Guardian, Tuesday March 21, 1933

Within weeks after Adolf Hitler became German chancellor in 1933, Heinrich Himmler and the SS set up a concentration camp on the grounds of a defunct munitions plant in the village of Dachau, northwest of Munich. Konzentrationslager Dachau, or KZ Dachau, was the first concentration ... (more)