Concentration camp in Germany (23 photos)

KZ Dachau - the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, created in 1933. in the city of Dachau near Munich, which became the prototype for all other camps. 200 thousand people passed through it; officially 30 thousand people were tortured or killed (unofficially much more), although initially Dachau was not considered an extermination camp and death factory, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz), but rather a transit point.

At Dachau, a system of punishments and other forms of physical and psychological abuse of prisoners was developed, including medical experiments on prisoners under the leadership of the chief physician, Sigmund Rascher. Before the start of World War II, there were political opponents of the Nazi regime in Dachau - communists, socialists, clergy, etc., later - Russian prisoners of war and Polish, Hungarian Jews.

1. The slogan Arbeit macht frei is the password of all concentration camps. The last hope of the prisoners.

2. Appelplatz. In this square in front of the main building, many prisoners had to stand for hours in the cold in their shirts; the noisiest ones were doused with cold water for disobedience. The procedure could last all day.

3. A reliable security system did not leave a single chance for the prisoners. It was almost impossible to escape.

4. Reception point

6. There was no heating in the barracks

7. Clothes of prisoners. Below the number are triangles of different colors - the division into Jews, emigrants, political criminals, gays, clergy, etc.

8. The chosen ones could use these personal belongings:

9. Barracks - simple 3-tier beds. For a bed that was not made perfectly (for a small crease), you could end up alone, or at least be beaten. The guards also made sure that the level of all beds was the same (measured with a ruler, etc.). They invented games for themselves, just to have a reason to torture people.

10. Conditions in the barracks. The barracks were specially built so that no one could hang themselves.

11. Washbasins. Here they managed to hang themselves by hooking the rope onto the top of the washbasin.

12. There were only 30 barracks on the territory of the Dachau camp - there was a catastrophic lack of space, especially after 1941.

13. Those who were guilty were sent for preventative treatment alone (2x2 meters) to the main bunker. Tk. and there weren’t enough places there, the SS men came up with a new version of torment. 2x2 meters were divided by partitions into 6 standing cells 65x65 cm - there was no way for an adult, even an emaciated person, to sit in them. Without food, water or fresh air, prisoners were kept in such cages for up to 72 hours without a break. Few survived.

15. Main stove of Dachau. After 41, the number of prisoners constantly increased - there was not enough space, clothing, and even gruel - so some of the people and a huge number of corpses had to be burned - they did not have time to shoot. saved ammo.

16. People were hanged directly in front of the stove so as not to be burned alive. The clothes of the suicide bombers were soaked in disinfectant gas and given to the “newcomers.”

17. The entrance to the “shower” Brausebad is a well-known deception of Jews, specially invented by “humane” fascists to avoid fear and panic before death. They were invited to wash themselves in a special cell (see next photo), and you yourself know what happened next.

18. This is a model of a gas chamber, or “shower room”. Let me make a reservation right away - the use of the camera “for its intended purpose” has not been proven. It was built towards the end of the war, again due to a lack of space. On top, as promised in the name "brausebad", are shower heads - from which water has never leaked... It is very difficult to describe in words the feelings when you enter this room. This room is 99% a museum. Only in it do you understand what actually happened in the distant 40s.

20. Fun fact about the head physician-pervert of Dachau – Sigmund Rascher. He died in 1945, but not like most of the fascist workers from Dachau, who were hanged after the American liberation.
In the course of his activities, Rascher conducted many experiments on people, injected various drugs, locked them in refrigerators, tested exposure in vacuum and under pressure (in the museum I saw just crazy photographs-reports of experiments, not for the faint of heart).

More than 200 people took part in the experiments, of which a good half died. Rumors about the hellish experiments reached the Fuhrer Hitler himself, who approved such activities “for the benefit” of the 3rd Reich and promised a reward for his contribution to Aryan medicine.

And in the end, Rascher was killed by his own people, on the orders of SS chief Himmler himself. Why: a doctor and his wife stole 3 children from an orphanage and passed them off as their own (he didn’t steal it for experiments, he wanted to appropriate it, he was a rich man, anything would be better than dying in an orphanage during the war!), they were arrested and sent to a neighboring concentration camp, where doctors They shot him and his wife was hanged. The Irony of Fate.