Wacko, why did Hitler put Commies in the Concentration camps, along with the Jews? Surely he wouldn't incinerate his own, would he? You've a totally distorted UNEDUCATED view of history. Did you get past grade school? I guess not.
Notable prisoners of Dachau
Jews
Jakob Ehrlich, Member of Vienna's City Council (Rat der Stadt Wien), died in Dachau May 17, 1938.
Bruno Bettelheim, imprisoned in 1938, freed in 1939; left Germany
Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist from Vienna, Austria
David Ludwig Bloch, painter, arrested in November 1938 in connection with Kristallnacht
Hans Litten
Alfred Gruenebaum, father of the prominent US obstetrician Amos Grunebaum
Sign on the gravel road leading to the entrance.
Courtyard
Hundreds of prisoners were stacked into triple bunks in each barracks.
The modern sign outside the building housing the cremation ovens says in German "Think about how we died here."
The sign says that prisoners were hanged from the rafters. The ovens cremated the dead.
[edit] Resistance fighters
Georg Elser, who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1939, murdered April 9, 1945
Arthur Haulot
Franc Karo, partisan
Georges Charpak, who in 1992 received the Nobel Prize in Physics
Kurt Nehrling
Noor Inayat Khan, the George's Cross awardee of Indian origin who served as a clandestine radio operator for the WAAF in Paris
Clergymen
Dachau had a special "priest block". Of the 2720 priests (among them 2579 Catholic) held in Dachau, 1034 did not survive the camp. The majority were Polish (1780), of whom 868 died in Dachau.
Nikolai Velimirovic (1880-1956), Serbian bishop and an influential theological writer, On December 14, 1944 he was sent to Dachau, together with Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo.
Father Jean Bernard (1907-1994), Catholic priest from Luxembourg who was imprisoned from May 1941 to August 1942. Father Bernard wrote the compelling book "Pfarrerblock 25487" about his experiences in Dachau. The movie "The Ninth Day" directed by Volker Schlöndorff is based on his diary.
Blessed Titus Brandsma, Dutch Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy, died July 26, 1942.
Norbert Capek (1870-1942) founder of the Unitarian Church in the Czech Republic.
Anton Fränznick, in Dachau since 1942, died January 27, 1944.
Blessed Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski Catholic priest, died February 23, 1945.
Blessed Stefan Grelewski, Catholic priest, prisoner No. 25281, starved to death in Dachau on May 9, 1941.
Adam Kozlowiecki, Polish Cardinal.
Karl Leisner, in Dachau since December 14, 1941, freed May 4, 1945, but died on August 12 from the tuberculosis contracted in the camp.
Martin Niemöller, imprisoned in 1941, freed May 4, 1945.
Hermann Scheipers
Richard Schneider, in Dachau since November 22, 1940, freed March 29, 1945
Aloys Scholze, died September 1, 1942.
Joseph Kentenich, founder of the Schoenstatt Movement, spent three and a half years in Dachau.
Nanne Zwiep, Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Enschede, spoke out from the pulpit against Nazis and their treatment of Dutch Citizens and Jews, arrested April 20, 1942, died in Dachau of exhaustion and malnutrition November 24, 1942.
Hermanus Knoop, Pastor of the Reformed (Gereformeerd) Church of Rotterdam-Delfshaven, arrested November 19, 1941 for praying for "bringing politics to the pulpit"
Politicians
Jan Buzek, murdered in November 1940
Leopold Figl, arrested 1938, released May 8, 1943
Alois Hundhammer, arrested June 21, 1933, freed July 6, 1933
Kurt Schumacher, in Dachau since July 1935, sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1939, returned to Dachau in 1940, released due to extreme illness March 16, 1943
Stefan Starzynski, the President of Warsaw, probably murdered in Dachau in 1943
Communists
Alfred Andersch, held 6 months in 1933
Emil Carlebach (Jewish), in Dachau since 1937, sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938
Nikolaos Zachariadis (Greek), from November 1941 to May 1945
Oskar Müller, in Dachau from 1939, freed 1945
Nando Gherghetta (Italian-Istrian), from 1943
Writers
Raoul Auernheimer, writer, in Dachau 4 months
Tadeusz Borowski, writer, survived, but committed suicide in 1951
Stanislaw Grzesiuk, Polish writer, poet and singer, Varsavianist, in Dachau since April 4, 1940, later transferred to Mauthausen-Gusen complex
Heinrich Eduard Jacob, German writer, in Dachau 6 months in 1938, transferred to Buchenwald
Stefan Kieniewicz, Polish historian
Gustaw Morcinek, Polish Silesian writer
Jura Soyfer, writer, in Dachau 6 months in 1938, transferred to Buchenwald
Fritz Gerlich
Stevo Žigon (number: 61185), Serbian actor, theatre director, and writer, in Dachau from December 1943 to May 1945
Robert Antelme, French writer
Franz Roh, German art critic and art historian, for a few months in 1933
Others
Fritz Thyssen, businessman and early supporter of Hitler, later an opponent
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg
Franz Halder, former Chief of Army General Staff
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg
Prince Ernst von Hohenberg |
