The Concentration Camp Museum at Dachau was the site of the first camp of its kind constructed by Hitler and his Nazi party in March 1933. The camp was set in a disused gunpowder factory. The sickening history of the camp is now compassionately told as visitors wander round the buildings. Photos of the camp are shown, as are uniforms worn by guards, and the story of how prisoners were labelled according to their apparent crime. Many political dissidents, priests and homosexuals were held at Dachau, and even though its extermination chambers were never used, some 31,951 prisoners died here during the war years.
