Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
Site of the Nazis' first concentration camp, preserved with original guard towers, barracks foundations and a memorial to victims.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site opens with carpenter Georg Elser, who planted a bomb in a Munich beer hall on November 9th, 1939, timed to kill Hitler mid-speech, and was caught that same night trying to cross into Switzerland. You'll hear how he was held here under a false name in the punishment block behind the camp's bunker, one prisoner among the more than two hundred thousand people confined within this fence from 1933 onward. The guide also traces the camp's role as the model the Nazis used for every one that followed.
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