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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)

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Dachau Cultural  

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

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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

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 • Jun. 2, 2024

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

The route from Gross-Rosen to Dachau, north of Munich, took us through Czechoslovakia and back into Germany again.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

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