Dachau

[ dah-kou; German 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

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

Margol didn’t land at D-Day, but the Jacksonville, Florida, native was among those that liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945.

From Seattle Times

Was part of a unit, also including his twin brother, Howard Margol, that liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945.

From Seattle Times

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

From Salon

And that’s why I took my grandchildren to Dachau, so they could see and bear witness to the perils of indifference, the complicity of silence, in the face of evil they knew was happening.

From New York Times