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writtten 25 may 1941 and posted on the 30th from dachau concentration camp. Three folded double pages. Written by looks like Karel afflek who was born 22 nov 1901 so he was 40 then. The letter starts "To my wife and childern who I love" - letter fine the envelope is torn in half but its t ..both sides stamped. Dachau was a Nazi German concentration camp , and the first one opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau , about 16 km (10 miles) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria which is located in southern Germany.Opened in March 1933 [1] , it was the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of National Socialist (Nazi) NSDAP party and the Catholic Zentrum party (dissolved on 6 July 1933 ). Heinrich Himmler , Chief of Police of Munich, officially described the camp as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners ." [2] Dachau served as a prototype and model for the other Nazi concentration camps that followed. Its basic organization, camp layout as well as the plan for the buildings were developed by Kommandant Theodor Eicke and were applied to all later camps. He had a separate secure camp near the command center, which consisted of living quarters, administration, and army camps. Eicke himself became the chief inspector for all concentration camps, responsible for molding the others according to his model. [3] In total, over 200,000 prisoners from more than 30 countries were housed in Dachau of whom two-thirds were political prisoners and nearly one-third were Jews .[4] 25,613 prisoners are believed to have died in the camp and almost another 10,000 in its subcamps, [5] primarily from disease , malnutrition and suicide . In early 1945, t was a typhus epidemic in the camp followed by an evacuation, in which large numbers of the weaker prisoners died.Together with the much larger Auschwitz , Dachau has come to symbolize the Nazi concentration camps to many people. Konzentrationslager (KZ) Dachau holds a significant place in public memory because it was the second camp to be liberated by British or American forces. Tfore, it was one of the first places w the West was exposed to the reality of Nazi brutality through firsthand journalist accounts and through newsreels The camp was divided into two sections: the camp area and the crematorium. The camp area consisted of 32 barracks, including one for clergy imprisoned for opposing the Nazi regime and one reserved for medical experiments. The courtyard between the prison and the central kitchen was used for the summary execution of prisoners. The camp was surrounded by an electrified barbed-wire gate, a ditch, and a wall with seven guard towers. [7] In early 1937, the SS, using prisoner labor, initiated construction of a large complex of buildings on the grounds of the original camp. Prisoners were forced to do this work, starting with the destruction of the old munitions factory, under terrible conditions. The construction was officially completed in mid-August 1938 and the camp remained essentially unchanged and in operation until 1945. Dachau thus was the longest running concentration camp of the Third Reich. The area in Dachau included other SS facilities beside the concentration campâe"a leader school of the economic and civil service, the medical school of the SS, etc. The KZ at that time was called a "protective custody camp," and occupied less than half of the area of the entire complex.Dachau also served as the central camp for Christian religious prisoners. According to records of the Roman Catholic Church, at least 3,000 religious , deacons , priests , and bishops were imprisoned t [8] In August 1944 a women's camp opened inside Dachau. Its first shipment of women came from Auschwitz Birkenau. Only 19 women guards served at Dachau, most of them until liberation. [9] [10] In the last months of the war, the conditions at Dachau became even worse. As Al...
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