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Dachau Research Paper

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The first Nazi concentration camp was built in March, 1933. Named Dachau, it opened in the grounds of the abandoned factory near the north eastern part of the town Dachau. According to the article, “searing memories of Nazi Germany’s First concentration camp,” by Soraya Sarhaddi Neison, “The original plan was to house 5,000 political prisoners,” However, an “SS leader Henrich Himmer extended Dachau’s mandate to forced labor, the prisoners of war.” This states that the camps didn’t start out as deadly as it came to be. However, survivor, Max Mannheimer, states “Dachau was less evil than other camps I experienced.” So, the camp was indeed deadly but not as deadly than the other

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