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

Erika Flocken, a trained physician who worked for the OT, was the head doctor at the Dachau satellite camp at Mühldorf, which the OT shared with the SS.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

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

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 • Jan. 25, 2025

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 • Aug. 8, 2024

The route from Gross-Rosen to Dachau, north of Munich, took us through Czechoslovakia and back into Germany again.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz