* villages with a semi-permanent mix of visiting and resident artists ( Ahrenshoop, Barbizon, Concarneau, Dachau, St Ives, Laren, and Skagen )

Barbizon, Pont-Aven, Giverny, Katwijk, Newlyn and Dachau drew artists from around the world and had a pronounced international flavour.

From its founding in 1956 until his death he served many terms as president of the Comité International de Dachau, and regularly gave the keynote speech at the May memorial ceremonies.

Dachau () is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany ( Dokow in English ).

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.

Running from the west the river Amper runs south of Dachau ’ s old town, changes its direction at the former paper milling plant to the northeast and continues through Prittlbach into Hebertshausen.

By allowing it to run to seed and through deliberate cultivation by the town of Dachau the canal is only still recognizable as such between Frühlingstrasse and the Pollnbach.

The city is served by Munich S-Bahn ( S2 ) and Deutsche Bahn via Dachau railway station located in the South of the town.

The town is also served by Dachau Stadt Railway Station which serves the local A line with the rural vicinity.

It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany.

On 7 August 1938 prisoners from Dachau concentration camp were sent to the town of Mauthausen near Linz, Austria, to begin the construction of a new camp.

As well, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp was located in the town.

Known as the " Death's Head Units ", the SS-TV was first organized as several battalions, each based at one of Germany's major concentration camps, the oldest of which was at Dachau.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

As an officer he was given better treatment than most of the 22, 000 inmates of Flossenburg, who were forcibly evacuated on the 220 km death march to Dachau concentration camp, during which one third died.

Reporting a death rate exceeding 21 %, the newspaper stated ; " As one speaks today of Dachau, in ten years people throughout the world will speak about camps like Saint Paul D ' Eyjeaux ".

In the entire history of the Orthodox Church there has probably never been an Easter service like the one at Dachau in 1945.

* Jean (" Johnny ") Voste, the one documented black prisoner, was a Belgian resistance fighter from the Congo ; he was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage, and was one of the survivors of Dachau

Eicke's reorganizations and the introduction of forced labour made the camps one of the SS's most powerful tools ; this earned him the enmity of Reinhard Heydrich, who had already unsuccessfully attempted to take control of the Dachau concentration camp in his position as chief of the SD.

" As it drove into the heartland of Bavaria, the " Tiger " division overran one of the many subcamps of Dachau concentration camp in the Landsberg area on 27 April 1945.

The following description is based on the badge coding system used before and during the early stages of the war in the Dachau concentration camp, which had one of the more elaborate coding systems.

In 1944, the first female overseers were stationed at Neuengamme, Dachau, Mauthausen, a very few at Natzweiler Struthof, and even fewer at Dora Mittelbau ( one is known ).

During the final days of the war, the villain the Ultra-Humanite, who worked as one of Hitler's scientists at Dachau, transferred his brain into Thompson's body.

) – was one of the Dachau Trials, which took place from May 16, 1946 to July 16, 1946.

*" Dachau Blues ", a 1969 song from one of John Lydon's favourite albums

At age 32, under Nazi rule, he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp until he signed over his family's fortune for one Reichsmark.

Eicke's reorganization and the introduction of forced labor made the camps one of the SS's most powerful tools, but it earned him the enmity of RSHA director, Reinhard Heydrich, who was attempting to take over control of Dachau.

The artist, one of the Italian political deportees, had managed to escape in April 1945 during one of the so-called death marches from Hersbruck to Dachau, when the camp was evacuated by the Nazis with the approach of U. S. forces.

Broszat denied there was a functioning gas chamber at the Dachau concentration camp ( though he noted that one was built shortly before the end of the war as part of the effort to convert Dachau into a death camp but was never used ).

19 women guards served at Dachau, most of them until liberation.

On 28 April 1945, the day before the surrender, Camp Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss had left the Dachau camp, along with most of the regular guards and administrators in the camp.

According to the most probable version he was transferred to Moabit prison in Berlin and then to Dachau concentration camp where he died.

The most probable date of his death is October 17, 1943 ( shot to death in the Dachau concentration camp ), although other versions mention August 1944 ( Warsaw ), 1944 ( Baelberge ), 1943 ( Spandau prison ) or January 1940 ( Dachau ).

In March 1940 the able prisoners from Kraków who remained alive were sent to Dachau and most of them, but not all, released in January 1941 on intervention.

Palatucci entered Dachau as a " protective custody prisoner " and most likely died in the epidemics of typhus that spread in the section of political prisoners in January 1945.

The most widespread assumption is that this practice was first established under international humanitarian law at the trial in 1947 of the planner and commander of Operation Greif, Otto Skorzeny, by the military court at the Dachau Trials.

Several prisoners ( most likely from the Dachau concentration camp ) and a local Polish-Silesian activist ( arrested a day before ) were left dead on the scene in Polish uniforms.

Max Liebermann, for instance, painted at Barbizon, Dachau, Etzenhausen and at least six short-lived Dutch colonies ; Frederick Waugh worked in Barbizon, Concarneau, Grèz-sur-Loing, St Ives and Provincetown in the United States ; Evert Pieters was active at Barbizon, Egmond, Katwijk, Laren, Blaricum, Volendam and Oosterbeek ; Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes painted at Pont-Aven, Zandvoort, Newlyn and St Ives.

* 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.

By the time of WWII, people were dying from starvation, untreated disease and murder in Germany and Austria, at places such as Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen-Gusen.

Dachau is a district in Bavaria, Germany.

He saw the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps after they were liberated, and became disillusioned with Communism when he encountered Russian slave laborers who had been taken to Nazi Germany by force but refused to return to the Soviet Union at the end of the war.

When the Germans occupied Yugoslavia in World War II, Nikolaj Velimirović was imprisoned and eventually taken to Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

The Flossenbürg War Crimes Trial began in Dachau, Germany, on 12 June 1946, and came to an end on 22 January 1947.

Dachau concentration camp (, ) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany.

Yolande Beekman ( born 7 November 1911, Paris-died 13 September 1944, Dachau concentration camp, Germany ) was a World War II spy.

Dachau concentration camp, Germany

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

Peter Armbruster ( born July 25, 1931 in Dachau, Bavaria ) is a physicist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung ( GSI ) facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with co-discovering elements 107 ( bohrium ), 108 ( hassium ), 109 ( meitnerium ), 110 ( darmstadtium ), 111 ( roentgenium ), and 112 ( copernicium ) with research partner Gottfried Münzenberg.

After the merging of Austria into Greater Germany ( April 1938 ), the authorities sent him with other Austrian Jews to Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps for 11 months from 1938 to 1939.

In 1936 he moved to Dachau ( Germany ), where he met his future second wife, Emma Maria Thoma ( although they were not to marry until 1952 ).

* Dachau, Germany

He was then put on trial by the U. S. Military Tribunal at Dachau ( Dachau Trials ) for the summary executions of Allied airmen ( Fliegermorde ), shot down over Germany in his field of command.

The Dachau massacre occurred in the area of the Dachau concentration camp, near Dachau, Germany, on April 29, 1945, during World War II.

Until her engagement in 1965, she worked as a commercial artist for a printer in Dachau, Germany.