The town is also known for its proximity to the infamous Dachau concentration camp built in 1933 by the Nazis, in which tens of thousands of prisoners were murdered.

* Dachau Concentration Camp memorial Site: Dachau is best known for its proximity to the relatively well-preserved site of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, the first large-scale concentration camp in Germany, converted from an old gunpowder factory by the Nazi regime in 1933.

In March 1933, less than three months after the Nazis seized power, Himmler set up the first official concentration camp at Dachau.

* 1933 – Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.

Crematorium at Dachau_concentration_camp | Dachau, the first concentration camp established in 1933.

By the end of 1933 the first Nazi concentration camps had been erected ( at Dachau, Osthofen, Oranienburg, Sonnenburg, Lichtenburg and the marshland camps around Esterwegen ); all remaining prisoners who had been held in so-called protective custody in state prisons were transferred to these concentration camps.

Haushofer admits that after 1933 much of what he wrote was distorted under duress: his wife had to be protected by Hess's influence ( who managed to have her awarded ' honorary German ' status ); his son was implicated in the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler and was executed by the Gestapo ; he himself was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp for eight months ; and his son and grandson were imprisoned for two-and-a-half months.

As a consequence, he was held for 6 months in the Dachau concentration camp in 1933.

Dachau was opened in March 1933.

Dachau was the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of National Socialist Party ( Nazi Party ) and the German National People's Party ( dissolved on 6 July 1933 ).

On 26 June 1933, Himmler appointed him commandant of Dachau after complaints and criminal proceedings against former commandant SS-Sturmbannführer Hilmar Wäckerle following the murder of several detainees under the " guise of punishment ".

The first camp in Germany, Dachau, was founded in March 1933.

" Dachau was the first regular concentration camp established by the German coalition government of National Socialist Workers ' Party ( Nazi Party ) and the Nationalist People's Party ( dissolved on 6 July 1933 ).

* Mar 22, 1933 Dachau concentration camp opens, begins receiving political prisoners

" Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933 – 2001 ".

): Dachau and the Nazi Terror 1933 – 1945, vol.

Haushofer admits that after 1933 much of what he wrote was distorted under duress: his wife had to be protected by Hess's influence ; his son was murdered by the Gestapo ; he himself was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp for eight months ; and his son and grandson were imprisoned for two-and-a-half months.

On 26 June 1933, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler appointed SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke the Kommandant of the first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau.

He was a staunch opponent of fascism in Italy, Germany and France from the 1920s, reinforced by the ten days he spent as a prisoner in the Dachau Concentration Camp in late March 1933.

After the Nazis seized power in Germany on 30 January 1933, he was arrested on 9 March 1933 and brought to the Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered on 30 June 1934 during the Night of the Long Knives.

Oberführer ( Senior Colonel ) Hans Loritz ( December 12, 1895, Augsburg-January 31, 1946 ) joined the SS in 1930 and in 1933, began work as an officer at the Dachau concentration camp.

Laaksonen, who was not interested in athletics, opposed Nurmi raising their newborn son Matti to be a runner and stated to the Associated Press in 1933 that " his concentration on athletics at last forced me to go to the judge for a divorce.

The first concentration camps, which were originally intended to house political opponents, were established in early 1933.

In March 1933, Kurt Hiller, the main organizer of Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute of Sex Research, was sent to a concentration camp.

While the number of homosexuals in German concentration camps is hard to estimate, Richard Plant gives a rough estimate of the number of men convicted for homosexuality " between 1933 to 1944 at between 50, 000 and 63, 000.

One of the first Nazi concentration camps was built in Oranienburg in 1933.

For example, in 1933 he tried to restrict the widespread use of " protective custody " orders that were used to send people to concentration camps, only to be begged off by SS chief Heinrich Himmler.

Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, IG Farben cooperated with the Nazi regime, profiting from guaranteed volumes and prices, and from the slave labor provided by the government's concentration camps.

Ahrweiler had a small Jewish community before the Nazis came to power, but they were all taken away and relocated, some to concentration camps, after 1933.

From 1933 to 1935, a concentration camp primarily for political opponents of the regime was established on the Kuhberg, one of the hills surrounding Ulm.

During the 20th century, the arbitrary internment of civilians by the state reached a climax with Nazi concentration camps ( 1933 – 1945 ).

Originally, when the concentration camps were established in 1933, they were used for forced labour, imprisonment, and for re-education purposes, not for mass murder.

Sintis notable for their sporting achievements include Johann Trollmann, the 1933 boxing champion of Germany, who was killed in a German concentration camp.

During Muggeridge's early time in Moscow, his main journalistic concentration was writing a novel, Picture Palace, about his experiences at the Manchester Guardian, which was completed and submitted to publishers in January 1933.

Opened 22 March 1933 ( 51 days after Hitler took power ), it was the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of the National Socialist Party ( Nazi Party ) and the German Nationalist People's Party ( dissolved on 6 July 1933 ).

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke, a convicted felon and ardent Nazi, to run the camp in June 1933.

Company 959 established a camp in Joes Valley in May 1933.

There was also a Caister Camp Halt, opened in 1933 to serve the holiday camp mentioned below.

The project camp was opened June 18, 1933, and closed July 20, 1942.

The Danish novel Helvede Hinsides Havet ( 1933 ) ( Hell beyond the Sea ), by Aage Krarup Nielsen, describes the life in the camp.

The camp was in use from 1933 to 1960, the first twelve years as an internment center of the Third Reich.

The camp commander gives a speech to prisoners about to be released as part of a pardoning action near Christmas 1933.