The Dachau Concentration Camp was one of the first camps established by the Nazis in 1933. At first, the camp only housed political prisoners, but later Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and others were sent to Dachau. Although Dachau was not an extermination camp, tens of thousands of people died from malnutrition, illness, overwork, and torture. Others were subjects of medical experiments and suffered horribly.
Views of the Dachau Concentration Camp
Picture from National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
While Dachau Was in Operation
Picture from KZ Gedenkstatte Dachau, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
- Prisoners with their mess kits on their way to the camp kitchen
- Inmates gathered outside and on the roof tops of a camp building to hear a speech by Hitler
- Prisoners caring for the camp's Angora rabbits
- The corpse of Abraham Borenstein lies in the foreground after his execution by the SS
- Prisoners working in a munitions factory
- A prisoner forced to stand without moving for hours as a punishment
- Prisoners outside of the "Revier", the camp's infirmary
Experiments at Dachau
Picture from the KZ Gedenkstatte Dachau, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
- A prisoner in a special chamber responds to changing air pressure during high-altitude experiments
- A prisoner who has been subjected to low pressure experimentation
- This prisoner has been subjected to low pressure experimentation
- Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, a physician at the Dachau concentration camp, defends himself in the docket at the Dachau trial
Himmler's Visit to Dachau
Picture from the Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Gas Chambers & Crematorium
Picture from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Death Marches
Picture from the Marion Koch Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Survivors Welcoming Liberators
Picture from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Survivors of Dachau
Picture from the Francis Robert Arzt Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
- An American soldier stands guard outside while survivors bathe in the moat
- A liberated Russian prisoner is deloused
- Survivors distribute bread to their comrades after liberation
- Survivors in a crowded barrack after liberation
- Survivors sit on the steps of a barracks after liberation
- Survivors in a barracks, behind barbed-wire
- A survivor on the day of liberation
- Emaciated survivors sitting on a bench
- Two survivors prepare food outside the barracks. The man on the right, presumably, is the only black prisoner in Dachau
Survivors in the Hospital
Picture from the Francis Robert Arzt Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Camp Guards Killed
Picture from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
The Dead
Picture from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
- U.S. troops watch a passing cart laden with corpses intended for burial
- Railway cars loaded with the corpses of prisoners who died in route
- Death train in Dachau
- Congressman John M. Vorys(right) viewing a room full of corpses while on an inspection
- Group of American editors and publishers are shown the corpses of prisoners
- American force boys believed to be Hitler youth to examine boxcars containing bodies of prisoners starved to death
