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Remains of the Railway Track to Dachau Concentration Camp

Remains of the Railway Track to Dachau Concentration Camp

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Location: Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Jewish Memorial Dachau loop from Rothschwaige

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2. Jewish Memorial Dachau loop from Oberaugustenfeld

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3. Würmmühlweiher – View of the Amper loop from Oberaugustenfeld

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Knersi (📍Maisach)

September 9, 2023

A siding led from Dachau station to the SS camp. The SS transported prisoners to their place of imprisonment, sometimes in freight wagons. The prisoners who were brought in passed through the western entrance of the SS camp and reached the area of the SS barracks. The siding was removed in 1984. A small section of the tracks remains at the former entrance to the SS site, where Isar-Amperwerke-Straße now runs. Panel 4 of the "Path of Remembrance" marks this spot.

Two days before the liberation of Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, a transport of prisoners arrived from Buchenwald concentration camp. The train with 4,480 prisoners was on the road for 21 days. The SS had crammed prisoners into freight wagons and barely provided food and water. During the journey, thousands died of hunger and exhaustion or were shot by the SS. A train full of dying and dead people arrived in Dachau. Only 816 people survived the transport. The SS refused to allow the train to enter the SS camp, so it remained on the tracks in front of it. When the US Army troops reached the Dachau concentration camp, they found the bodies in the wagons, an impression that left many traumatized.

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Location: Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

Remains of the Railway Track to Dachau Concentration Camp

1. Jewish Memorial Dachau loop from Rothschwaige

2. Jewish Memorial Dachau loop from Oberaugustenfeld

3. Würmmühlweiher – View of the Amper loop from Oberaugustenfeld

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