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As the first permanent concentration
camp, it became the model for all
other Nazi concentration camps. It was built in 1933 at the edge of Dachau,
a town near Munich, Germany. Dachau was
built to hold Jews and political prisoners. After 1942, many
of the prisoners were used as slave labor on farms or in weapons
factories near the camp.
Cruel medical
experiments were conducted on more than 3,500 of the prisoners and most of
them died. About
28,500 prisoners were either murdered or died of starvation and
disease. The United States military forces discovered about 10,000 dead bodies and
and freed more than 32,000 starving prisoners in April, 1945.
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