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Dachau Concentration Camp was one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazi regime. It was built only a few weeks after Adolf Hitler came to power. It existed from 22nd March 1933 until the liberation by the Allies on 29th April 1945. Soldiers of the 7th US Army liberated the main camp. The compound was located about 20 kilometres northwest of Munich and was built on the orders of Heinrich Himmler, Munich's police chief and, from 1934, Reichsführer of the SS. Especially in the early years, it served to imprison and intimidate political dissidents. Later, priests, Jewish and homosexual people, Jehovah's Witnesses and Sinti and Roma were also among the prisoners. It was considered a "model camp" for all National Socialist concentration camps, and of the total of at least 200,000 prisoners, about 41,500 died. In addition, Dachau was a training ground for concentration camp guards and SS leaders, who were also deployed in extermination camps after the beginning of World War II.
Since 1965, the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial has been located on the site, which is visited by around 800,000 people every year.

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