Dachau
Americannoun
noun
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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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