Dachau

The visit to Dachau was different from Auschwitz. The museum was a walk and read. Even though we spent 2 hrs there we could have spent more. Dachau was the first camp opened within months of Hitler getting power in 1933 to serve as political prison and a SS training camp to teach the "Dachau spirit" to new
soldiers. The camp was opened for the full twelve years (1933 to 1945) and was infamous for the methods of torture and punishment of the prisoners. While there was deaths at Dachau, it wasn't considered to be a death camp; prisoners that were reformed by torture and abuse was reintegrated into society.

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