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Dachau

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

noun

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


Dachau British  
/ ˈdaxau /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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


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

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

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 Dec. 17, 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

Arnold said his grandfather told him “how awful and shocking” Dachau was and how it “changed everyone” who ever saw it firsthand.

From Salon May 27, 2024

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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