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The opening of the camp, with a capacity for 5,000 prisoners was announced by Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer SS at a press conference held on 20 March 1933. The first group of so-called protective-custody, consisting mainly of Communists and Social Democrats was brought to the camp on 22 March 1933. They were guarded by Bavarian state police until the camp was taken over by the SS on 11 April 1933.

Dachau itself had thirty-six large sub- camps in which approximately thirty-seven thousand prisoners worked almost exclusively on armaments. Private firms had the opportunity to hire slave labourers from the camps.

For the prisoners, who worked under SS guards, the private firms they paid a daily rate to the SS Wirtshafts- Verwaltungshauptamt – WVHA - the prisoners however, received nothing, those who were ill were sent back to the main camp, usually to die. The firms received new, healthier labourers until these too could no longer meet the demands of their employers.

Progurt wrote:Prison camps used for work labor for the benefit of private industry and the state. It's like looking into the... present...

Fukshot wrote:Yeah. They weren't functioning as extermination centers until the developmentally disabled were sent to die, followed shortly by the queers.

My grandfather (socialist, political prisoner) did 6 months of labor in that early period.

hagagaga wrote:

Fukshot wrote:Yeah. They weren't functioning as extermination centers until the developmentally disabled were sent to die, followed shortly by the queers.

My grandfather (socialist, political prisoner) did 6 months of labor in that early period.

And the thing with the Jews is mainly the idea of Reinhard Heydrich (not to detract from the evil of the rest of the senior Nazi officials).

Did you people know that Hermann Göring's brother was a prominent dissident?

Albert Göring also used his influence to get his Jewish former boss Oskar Pilzer freed after the Nazis had arrested him. Göring then helped Pilzer and his family escape from Germany. He is reported to have done the same for many other dissidents.[8]
Göring intensified his anti-Nazi activity when he was made export director at the Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia. Here, he encouraged minor acts of sabotage and had contact with the Czech resistance. On many occasions, Göring forged his brother's signature on transit documents to enable dissidents to escape. When he was caught, he used his brother's influence to get himself released. Göring also sent trucks to Nazi concentration camps with requests for labour. These trucks would then stop in an isolated area, and their passengers would be allowed to escape.[8]
After the war, Albert Göring was questioned during the Nuremberg Tribunal. However, many of the people whom he had helped testified on his behalf, and he was released. Soon afterwards, Göring was arrested by the Czechs but was once again freed when the full extent of his activities became known.[8]

Progurt wrote:Night of Long Knives.

Albert Goering, like Oskar Shindler and Raoul Wallenberg, was driven by an innate sense of justice, regardless of the consequences. Yet his brave actions have gone largely unacknowledged, his life relegated to a footnote to his brother's brutal history. William Hastings Burke has done a great service by bringing Albert's deeds to light. Many survivors and their descendants scattered across the globe owe their lives to him. It is time that he was recognised by Yad Vashem.