- Headline
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Will Open Prison Camps
- Sub-Headline
- Built for Communist and Political Captives
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, March 21, 1933
- Historical Event
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Dachau Opens
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- WILL OPEN PRISON CAMPS Built for Communist and Political Captives. MUNICH, Germany. (P). Police announced that on March 22, the first of several prison camps will be opened at Earny Dachau for communists and other political This camp will have accommodations for 5,000. Recently Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior, indicated that thousands of m prisoners incarcerated for political offenses would be sentenced to hard labor in detention camps.
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Bibliography
Berben, Paul. Dachau, 1933-1945: The Official History. London: Norfolk Press, 1975.
International Dachau Committee. The Dachau Concentration Camp, 1933 to 1945: Text and Photo Documents from the Exhibition. Dachau: Comite´ International de Dachau, 2005.
Marcuse, Harold. Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Neurath, Paul. The Society of Terror: Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005.
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