Dachau

American  

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

noun

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

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Dachau British  

/ ˈdaxau /

noun

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

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Dachau Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

His father, Sidney A. Olson, was a journalist for Time magazine who in April 1945 reported on the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany and later became an advertising executive.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

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

From BBC

I met him at a Holocaust education centre in Dachau, in southern Germany, just around the corner from what was once a Nazi concentration camp of the same name.

From BBC

This is the third part of a three-part conversation with Historian Timothy Ryback, the author of several books including "Hitler’s Private Library," "Hitler’s First Victims," and "The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau."

From Salon