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CONCENTRATION CAMP DACHAU 1933 - 1945, Comité International de Dachau Brussels

This is a 45 year old very, very heavily illustrated softcover book CONCENTRATION CAMP DACHAU 1933 - 1945 as published in English in 1978 by the Comité International de Dachau in Brussels for the museum at the camp in the small town of Dachau, north of Munich, Germany.

There are chapters devoted to punishment and prisoner correspondence and the persecution of Jews.

		One of the most interesting lists details the profitability and the numbers of prisoners which were “rented out” to many commercial contractors such as Allach, BMW, Junkers, Messerschmitt, Heinkel, Siemens, Zeppelin, FAMO, Dornier, etc. There are photos showing the armament factory inside of Dachau, prisoners working in the quarries at Mauthausen, and transports of people with mental deficiencies to Hartheim Castle near Linz.

In hundreds of pictures this superb history covers the Nazi rise to power and their decision to establish a concentration camp system to house criminals, political prisoners and communists that they intended to remove from German society as necessary. There are plans of the camp and reproductions of early newspaper articles about the camp and its prisoners, with all text translated into excellent readable English.

SS Doctor Rascher’s high pressure and cold water medical experiments on camp inmates

All in all, this is a very gruesome study of a very gruesome subject, but one which can be relied upon to present the truth since all members of the Comité International de Dachau were former prisoners at Konzentrationslager Dachau. It is in good used condition and has no odor. The small sticker of an antique store on the Kudamm in Berlin is on the front flyleaf.

There are pictures of arrest and protective custody forms, an index of distinguishing symbols worn by the camp prisoners, and official correspondence regarding the concentration camp inmates and their duties. Since concentration camps were run as profit making institutions for the SS, there is a comprehensive explanation of the SS-Wirtschafts Verwaltungshauptamt or SS Head Office for Economic Organization. There is even a list of SS careers which began at Konzentrationslager Dachau (Theodor Eicke, Adolf Eichmann, Rudolf Höss, Josef Kramer, etc.).

SS-Wirtschafts Verwaltungshauptamt, SS Head Office for Economic Organization

One chapter deals with mass executions, another with the establishment of SS Doctor Sigmund Rascher’s high pressure and cold water medical experiments on camp inmates and yet another chapter deals with Baracke X, the crematorium in the corner of KL Dachau (shown right).

Baracke X, the crematorium in the corner of KL Dachau

This 8-5/8 x 9-3/8 inch, 230 page book is the final word on the origins and construction of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’s first and most important Konzentrationslager (KL or Concentration Camp) and mother camp of all subsequent concentration camps, the one at Dachau.

Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners

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DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP PHOTO HISTORY

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP (KONZENTRATIONS-LAGER DACHAU OR KLD) PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH BY THE INTERNATIONAL DACHAU COMMITTEE IN 1978

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