Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Dachau Concentration Camp
All prisoners walked through this gate, marked with the sentence "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work will set you free)
The Main Building once you enter the Camp
a sink in the "Interrogation Room"
Objects Confinscated from Fritz Dressel in 1933
Prisoner Uniform as of 1938
this table was used to beat and torture the prisoners
Eating Bowl
The red cross would send packages to the prisoners at the camp.
The Zellenbau, or bunker, was a prison within the Dachau prison compound. This is where the VIP prisoners were held in private cells. A wing of the bunker that was reserved for SS soldiers, who had committed crimes, this is one of the doors outside of one of the cells The bunker was the place where "special prisoners," such as Dr. Johannes Neuhäusler and the Rev. Martin Niemöller had private prison cells. They were free to walk around outside the building during the day. Other prisoners were confined in these cells as punishment. An east wing with cells for the Nazi SS guards, who had violated the strict rules governing their behavior, has been torn down. Prisoners who were condemned to death were hanged on a gallows in the courtyard between the bunker and the service building..
a toilet inside one of the cells
All prisoners walked through this gate, marked with the sentence "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work will set you free)
The Main Building once you enter the Camp
a sink in the "Interrogation Room"
Objects Confinscated from Fritz Dressel in 1933
Prisoner Uniform as of 1938
this table was used to beat and torture the prisoners
Eating Bowl
The red cross would send packages to the prisoners at the camp.
The Zellenbau, or bunker, was a prison within the Dachau prison compound. This is where the VIP prisoners were held in private cells. A wing of the bunker that was reserved for SS soldiers, who had committed crimes, this is one of the doors outside of one of the cells The bunker was the place where "special prisoners," such as Dr. Johannes Neuhäusler and the Rev. Martin Niemöller had private prison cells. They were free to walk around outside the building during the day. Other prisoners were confined in these cells as punishment. An east wing with cells for the Nazi SS guards, who had violated the strict rules governing their behavior, has been torn down. Prisoners who were condemned to death were hanged on a gallows in the courtyard between the bunker and the service building..
a toilet inside one of the cells
