Word: dachau
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...city. To German demands for surrender, he defiantly announced: "We are fighting to death." When the Nazis entered the battered city, they found him at his desk, still defiant. He disappeared and Berlin hinted that he had committed suicide. Like many another suicide, he turned up in Dachau Concentration Camp. The Nazis reported that Starzynski's crime was "misappropriation" of Warsaw's funds. A year of Gestapo urging failed to uncover them...
...Papers" were mostly excerpts from pre-War II depositions made to British consuls in Munich, Frankfort, elsewhere in Germany, by both Aryans and Jews who had survived terms in Nazi camps, mostly famed Dachau near Munich and Buchenwald near Weimar. The White Paper quotes "Herr X, a well-to-do Jewish businessman," released after six weeks in Buchenwald, as saying that "Jews were told that the Führer himself had given orders that Jews might receive up to sixty strokes" of the lash...
...Give the black Cardinal a one-way ticket to Dachau!" (Naziconcentration camp...
...Vienna, the Nazi Press suggested punishment for gypsy fortunetellers, who have taken to wishing their customers: "That you may not be sent to Dachau concentration camp and forced to hew stones." The proposed punishment: send the gypsies to Dachau...
...much on display is the Death's Head Brigade, whose main job is to guard the concentration camps. Their activities have, however, caused much comment. When the Nazis took over in 1933 Herr Himmler established his first concentration camp near Dachau, Bavaria. There, 150 unemployed members of the SS guarded some 2,000 Communists, Social Democrats and assorted dissenters whose freedom was generally regarded as dangerous to the newborn State. By the time of the June purge in 1934, the number of "enemies of the State" had increased to 7,000 and new camps, at Sachsenhausen near Berlin...