Dachau Concentration Camp

The Jourhaus was the entrance and exit to the prisoners' camp. The prisoners had to pass through this gate to enter the camp for the first time on their arrival and then march through it daily on the way to the work details. In the recollections of the prisoners this gate house marked the border between the outside world and their imprisonment in the concentration camp.

"Arbeit Macht Frei" means work will set you free.

In the front section of the roll-call area is the monument created in 1968 by Nandor Glid. It is a warning reminder and commemoration of the suffering experienced by all prisoners.

This is inside the bunkers where the prisoners stayed.

Located along the central axis of the camp was the main camp road, along which the barracks were built on both the left and the right.
At the crossing of the camp road and the roll-call area two barracks have been reconstructed. The former location of the other 32 baracksare marked by foundations. The ground plan of the camp, still recognizable today and characterized by its symmetrical alignment and functional divisions, was also used in almost all other concentration camps.

The impression generated by the grounds today does not reproduce the oppressive confinement and density of the barrack facilities: originally designed to hold approx. 6,000 prisoners, the camp was constantly overcrowded in the final years. The Americans liberated over 30,000 people here at the end of April 1945.