“Four month in the Bunker, four months detention in darkness, four months with hot food every fourth day! Time crawls by. I only count every fourth day, and I am amazed when the food comes and wakes me up. I am in a state of trance.” –Ervin Gostner, July 1938
There were 3 detention buildings originally in Dachau, but only one of them still exists today in Dachau Memorial Site. The place is called bunker. The bunker was the place for punishment, torturing and interrogation. But that wasn’t the full story - as another side of the coin, it was also used as a cell for VIP prisoners.
The most shocking place in Dachau is Barrack X, the crematorium. Barrack X is the new crematorium in the camp. It was built in 1943 when capacity of old crematorium wasn’t big enough anymore to dispose all the corpses of the camp. There was also a gas chamber built to Barrack X, but there isn’t any evidence that it would have been used in large-scale.
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Gas chamber
was disguised as showers
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