Dachau
Concentration camp
Concentration camp
On March 22, 1933, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler had been appointed Reich Chancellor, a concentration camp for political prisoners was set up in Dachau that means that Dachau was the model for the rest of the concentration camps. At first there were only about 4,800 people at Dachau the first year it was open. But as timed moved on they had over 200,000 imprisoned who were counted for.Dachau was cloused on April 29 1945 when American troops liberated the survivors. But most of the survivers died because they were sick or too skinny to survive.
When arrived
When they arrived at the camp they were given a colored triangle that had to be worn on their clothing and a prisoner number
- Green- common criminal
- Black-communist, socialist, gypsies, and asocial
- Blue-slaved laborer so from occupied countries
- Purple- Jehovah's Witness
- Pink-homosexuals
- Red-political prisoner
- Two yellow- Jewish Tom represent the Star of David
- Yellow and black- Jewish and communist