Dachau

[dah-kou, dah-khou]

noun

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

Dachau

/ ˈdaxau /

noun

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

Dachau

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

Example Sentences

Among more than 600 items for sale was a letter from an Auschwitz prisoner and a medical diagnosis about the forced sterilisation of a prisoner from the Dachau concentration camp, German media reports.

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He was then sent to the Dachau concentration camp on the grounds of being politically unreliable, and then onto Flossenburg camp.

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He was moved and endured forced labour at other camps, and finally a death march to Dachau, before his Nazi captors fled incoming American troops.

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

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

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