Crossword clues for dachau
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 and surrendered to the U.S. Army April 29, 1945. Not a death camp per se, but as it was one of the places where inmates from other camps were sent as the Reich collapsed at the end of the war, and as it was one of the few large camps overrun by British or American forces, it has come to symbolize Nazi atrocities in many minds in the West. "Arbeit Macht Frei" was spelled out in metal on the gate (as it was on other concentration camps, such as Gross-Rosen, Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt).
Wikipedia
Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people working in Munich with roughly 45,000 inhabitants. The historic centre of town with its 18th-century castle is situated on an elevation and visible over a great distance.
Dachau was founded in the 9th century. It was home to many artists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; well-known author and editor Ludwig Thoma lived here for two years. The town is also known for its proximity to the infamous Dachau concentration camp built in 1933 by the Nazis, in which tens of thousands of prisoners died.
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.
The name Dachau can refer to:-
- The town of Dachau in Bavaria, Germany
- Dachau (district), a rural district in Bavaria
- The Dachau concentration camp
- The Dachau massacre, an incident in 1945 when U.S. soldiers shot and killed an estimated 50 to 120 SS camp guards
- The Dachau Trials set up by the United States after World War II to try German and Austrian war criminals
- " Dachau Blues", the third track of Captain Beefheart's third album, Trout Mask Replica
- After Dachau, a novel by Daniel Quinn
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.