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Dachau

American

[dah-kou, dah-khou] / ˈdɑ kaʊ, ˈdɑ xaʊ /

noun

a city in SE Germany, near Munich: site of Nazi concentration camp.

Dachau British

/ ˈdaxau /

noun

a town in S Germany, in Bavaria: site of a Nazi concentration camp. Pop: 39 474 (2003 est)

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Dachau Cultural

A concentration camp established by the Nazis in southern Germany. (See Holocaust.)

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Crowds stand outside looking at old photos posted on bulletin boards, pictures taken of people before they were rounded up and transported to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Gere told the audience that he had recently visited the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Nothing the American infantrymen encountered battling across Europe and into the German heartland steeled them for what they found at Dachau.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

A report by historian Anne Sudrow alleges that the Swiss company ordered raw materials from a garden in the Dachau camp.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

From Gross-Rosen we were to be moved again, this time to a camp called Dachau.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

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