The First Concentration Camp:
Dachau
MONICA SMITH
CIS 1020
POWERPOINT PROJECT
What is the Holocaust?
 Took place during World War 2
 Was a systematic murder of 6 million Jews
 Also targeted other racially inferior people
Ex. Mentally disabled, criminals, Gypsies
 Political Prisoners and Prisoners of war were in the camps
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 Called ‘The Final Solution’ by the Nazi Party
 Prisoners were transported to extermination camps
 Gas chambers and crematoriums were used
 Transported by train or forced to do a ‘Death March’
Death Camp Totals in 1945
Dachau
188,000
Jews
Treblinka
750,00
Jews
Auschwitz
1,000,000
Jews
Belzec
550,000
Jews
Lublin
50,000
Jews
Sobibor
200,000
Jews
Chelmno
150,000
Jews
The Nazi Party
 Came to power in January
1933
 Adolf Hitler was elected into
Chancellorship
 Quickly made Germany a
Police State
 Rearmed its military
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This violated the Treaty of
Versailles
Nazi Expansion
 Within months, Hitler began arresting communists,
socialists and labor leaders

Sent them to Dachau which was also constructed within
months of his appointment
 Hitler wanted more living space for his country
 Annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938
 Britain and France declared war on Germany when
Hitler invaded Poland in 1939
First camp in Germany
that opened in March
1933
Liberated May 1945 by
US Troops
Was used as a SS
training for camp guards
1942 a crematorium was
added
German Doctors
experimented on
prisoners
Dachau Concentration Camp
Liberation
Was liberated in 1945
by US Troops
188,000 people were
imprisoned between
1933 and 1945
US Troops found 30 or
more railroad cars with
dead bodies as they
neared the camp
US Troops forced
German citizens nearby
to walk through the
camp
Liberation Video
Aftermath
 German citizens were forced to tour the camp
 In this photo, German citizens were forced to carry
crosses to the site where they were forced to bury the
bodies of concentration
camps.
Conclusion
 Dachau was the first concentration camp in Germany
 Mostly used for political prisoners
 Over 188,000 people were executed
 US Troops liberated the camp in 1945