206,000
On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division. Established in 1933, Dachau was one of the first Nazi concentration camps. Until it was liberated on April 29, 1945, over 206,000 prisoners from all over Europe, Jews and non-Jews, were held there. Some, particularly in the early years, were released, and transfers to and from Dachau were common. The number of Jewish prisoners at Dachau rose with the increased persecution of Jews and on November 10-11, 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, more than 10,000 Jewish men were interned there. Since the total number of registered inmates at the main Dachau camp was 206,206, according to the camp records, this means that the US military claimed that there were 37,000 more deaths than the number of prisoners who were registered. Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the Nazis in Germany. The number of Jewish prisoners increased as the Nazis stepped up their persecution of the Jews, after Kristallnacht on 9-10 November 1938, more than ten thousand Jewish citizens from all over Germany were interned in Dachau concentration camp. It is estimated that some 35,000-43,000 prisoners died at Dachau and its numerous subcamps (the number for the main Dachau camp itself was some 31,000; check the Dachau Memorial webpage for revisions). Dachau was liberated by the U.S. Army (elements of the 45th and 42nd Infantry Divisions) on 29 April 1945. According to Paul Berben, a former prisoner, who wrote a book called Dachau: 1933 - 1945: The Official History, there were 67,649 prisoners in Dachau and its sub-camps when the last census was taken on April 26, 1945, three days before the US 7th Army arrived to liberate the camp. Three days prior to liberation, 7,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to leave Dachau on a forced death march that resulted in the death of many of the prisoners. On April 29, 1945, Dachau was liberated by the United States 7th Army Infantry Unit. The first concentration camp was Dachau, established on March 20, 1933 in the southern German town of the same name (10 miles northwest of Munich).
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