Dachau

American

[dah-kau, dah-khau] / 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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Gere told the audience that he had recently visited the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

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

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

Like other Germans, the boys had heard horrible whispers about places like Dachau.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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