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City near Munich
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dachau
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Dachau is a district in Bavaria , Germany . It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Fürstenfeldbruck , Aichach-Friedberg , Pfaffenhofen , Freising and Munich , and by the city of Munich .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
town in Bavaria, Germany, from Old High German daha "clay" + ouwa "island," describing its situation on high ground by the Amper River. Infamous as the site of a Nazi concentration camp nearby, opened in 1933 as a detention site for political prisoners ...
Usage examples of dachau.
Yes, that Dachau - the oldest and largest of Hitler’s concentration camps situated fifteen miles northwest of Munich.
It had been May in New York and while everyone’s eyes and ears were tuned to the horror stories coming from Dachau and Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he’d been reading the testimonies of foreign laborers who had toiled in Alfred Bach’s myriad factories.
The bombed out cities, the deplorable living conditions, the pauper-thin population, the horror of Dachau, the degradation not only of the German people but of the Americans as well.
If the drive from Heidelberg to Dachau had proven easy, the same could not be said for the trek to Sonnenbrucke.
Since leaving Dachau he’d been preoccupied by a single matter: the betrayal of his visit to the camp and the murder of General Oliver von Luck.
Anyone keeping tabs on his movements would by now have learned that he had visited Dachau, and upon being apprised of von Luck’s death, proclaimed his intention to return to HQ Military Government Bavaria.
Although still only hinting at the death factories of Auschwitz and Treblinka, Dachau and some of the other places were becoming recognized as mur-der camps and this, of course, long before the Nazis had ever considered making the Final Solution a reality.
Perhaps it's time for you to visit Dachau or some camp where you'll be far less comfortable than you were in those damned trenches.
Rows of long, slender warehouses dominated the place-their rough unpainted wooden exteriors being very reminiscent of the death houses at Dachau and Buchenwald.
Eight years ago he failed to return from a mission undertaken at Dachau in West Germany.
Although the expression had been subtle and brief, Micky read into it the opinion that defendants at the Nuremberg trials had similar excuses for working the gas chambers at Dachau and Auschwitz.
And the extermination camps at Dachau and Auschwitz had never been constructed with the intention of using them, only to see if they could be built, if they were architecturally viable.
By July 1941 tens of thousands had been dealt with, mainly in the concentration camps within Germany and Austria, notably Sachsenbausen, Mauthausen, Ravensbriick, Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen, and Theresienstadt in Bohemia.
Munich is responsible for Belzec, Dachau, Buchenwald, and Flossenburg.
Fortunately for them, they never put their training into practice, for after discovering Dachau the GIs were just waiting for someone to start something.