1. “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work will set you free)
Dachau Concentration Camp
“Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work will set you free)

2. Dachau History of Dachau: People Held Captive: Layout of Camp:
Liberation of Prisoners
Memorial of Dachau
People Held Captive:
Politicians and Clergymen
Jews and Christians
Layout of Camp:
Front Gate/ Work Building
Sleeping Barracks
“Krematorium”/ Ash Gardens                       

3. History of Dachau 1933-1945: Liberation of Prisoners:
First Prison Camp Under Hitler
Over 200,000 Prisoners Held Captive
Liberation of Prisoners:
Freedom Day April 29, 1945
SS flee from American Troops
American Troops take over Dachau
Memorial of Dachau:
Turned into Memorial in 1965
New History Exhibition in 2003
New example of Barracks built

4. Liberation
“The day is over, this April 29, I will celebrate it for the rest of my life as my second birthday, as the day that gifted me life anew.”
--Edgar Kupfer- Koberwitz, Dachauer Tagebucher, S.499

5. People Held Captive Politicians: Jews: Clergymen:
Politicians first prisoners
Different political opinions
Jews:
1st Jewish prisoners to Dachau
“Night of the Broken Glass”
Clergymen:
Clergymen’s special barracks
1,034 died inside camp
                  

6. Layout of Camp Front Gate/ Work Building: Sleeping Barracks:
Prisoners entrance
Roll call in courtyard
Prisoners Work Space
Sleeping Barracks:
34 barracks originally
Accommodated 200 prisoners
Torn down in 1964
“Krematorium”/ Ash Gardens:
Deaths took place here
2 crematoriums built
Ashes of deceased buried                      

7. Dachau History of Dachau: People Held Captive: Layout of Camp:
Liberation of Prisoners
Memorial of Dachau
People Held Captive:
Politicians and Clergymen
Jews and Christians
Layout of Camp:
Front Gate/ Work Building
Sleeping Barracks
“Krematorium”/ Ash Gardens                       

8. “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work will set you free)
Dachau Concentration Camp
“Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work will set you free)