Skip to main content
Dachau

Dachau

9 9.5
A Nazi concentration camp near Munich where many people were held and killed
  • proper noun
  • /ˈdɑːkaʊ/
translation icon : Dachau
  • Two dozen Pforzheim Jews were arrested on trumped-up charges and sent to Dachau concentration camp.
  • visit to Dachau
  • Dachau concentration camp

And among the people among his jobs then was to liberate Dachau, which was a a concentration camp.

Examples

  • As early as March 1933 the Nazis opened Dachau concentration camp a few miles from Munich, and immediately filled it with their German opponents.

  • As a Holocaust survivor who spent years in the Dachau concentration camp, I know because I lived it.

  • We were at Dachau toward the end of the war.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • In Dachau, after I saw my father buried, I began to pray again.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I picked that up at the Dachau concentration camp when we liberated it in 1945.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • I've been to one of the concentration camps in Dachau, Germany, and seen the horrible place myself.

    Blog text (14)
  • Erich Jacobsohn, for instance, was arrested during Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau.

    Academic text (2017)
  • These war crimes committed by Joachim Peiper's battle group were prosecuted vigorously at Dachau by lead investigator Colonel Burton Ellis.

  • As early as March 1933 the Nazis opened Dachau concentration camp a few miles from Munich, and immediately filled it with their German opponents.

  • Two dozen Pforzheim Jews were arrested on trumped-up charges and sent to Dachau concentration camp.

Synonyms

A Nazi camp near Munich where the government locked up and killed Jews and other people during the Holocaust

is the shorter place name without the explicit descriptive label

Compounds

A Nazi camp near Munich where the government locked up and killed Jews and other people during the Holocaust

Surface Forms

Dachau main

Etymology

Dachau probably comes from an old German personal name Dacho plus the ending -au, which means 'meadow' or 'riverside'. So Dachau originally meant 'Dacho's meadow' or a place by the water, which is why it is the name of the town.