Dachau

This article is about Dachau town. For the concentration camp, see Dachau concentration camp. For the massacre committed by Americans, see Dachau Massacre.

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Dachau is a city in southern Germany, in the federal state of Bavaria. Located at , just 20 km away from Munich, it has become a popular housing area for people working in Munich, and now has roughly 40,000 inhabitants. The town has a historic city center, with a castle built in the 18th century.

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Dachau was founded in the 8th century, and was the home of many artists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The writer Ludwig Thoma was born there.

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Dachau is best known for the proximity of the relatively well-preserved site of the infamous Dachau concentration camp, the first large-scale concentration camp in Germany, built by the Nazi regime in 1933.

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Concentration camp: A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internees are persons selected for their conformance...

Dachau concentration camp: The Dachau concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp near the city of Dachau, north of Munich, in southern Germany....

Dachau Massacre: The Dachau Massacre was a war crime committed by American troops at Dachau, Germany on April 29, 1945 during World War II....