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Dachau Concentration Camp Student hand-out Task 1: What do you know about the Holocaust? Share your ideas with a partner. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Task 2: Complete the transcript with information from the audio clip about Dachau. Source: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?MediaId=7825 1. The Dachau concentration camp was established in __________ and operated until the end of the war in 1945. It was one of the first concentration camps of the __________ regime and it is estimated that at least 188,000 prisoners were held there between 1933 and 1945. The __________, the elite guard of the Nazi Party, established the Dachau concentration camp in March 1933, on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of __________ in southern Germany. 2. Initially, the SS held primarily German Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents of the Nazi regime at Dachau. Over time, other groups were held there also, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma (Gypsies), and homosexuals. In the immediate __________________ of Kristallnacht in November, 1938, more than 10,000 Jewish men were imprisoned at Dachau. 3. In early 1937, the SS initiated construction of a large complex of buildings on the grounds of the original camp. Under terrible conditions, prisoners were forced to do this work, starting with the destruction of the old __________________ factory. 4. The Dachau camp was a training centre for SS guards, and the camp's organization and routine became the model for all Nazi concentration camps. The camp was divided into two sections --the camp area and the _____________________ area. The camp area consisted of 32 barracks and a group of support buildings. The courtyard between the prison and the central kitchen was used for the summary execution of prisoners. An ___________________ barbed-wire fence, a ditch, and a wall with seven guard towers surrounded the camp. 5. Several thousand Dachau prisoners who were judged too weak to continue working were sent to the Hartheim "___________________" killing centre near Linz, Austria, where they were killed. In Dachau, SS physicians performed medical experiments on hundreds of prisoners, who died or were permanently disabled as a result. 6. Dachau prisoners were also used as __________________________ to build roads, work in gravel pits, and drain marshes. In the summer and fall of 1944, to increase war production, more than 30 large subcamps under the administration of Dachau were established near armaments factories throughout southern Germany. Thousands of prisoners were worked to death. As __________________ advanced toward Germany, transports from evacuated camps arrived continuously at Dachau. Typhus epidemics were a serious problem due to overcrowding and poor ___________________ conditions. 7. In April 1945, as American forces approached, there were more than 65,000 registered prisoners in Dachau and its subcamps, about two-thirds of them political prisoners and one-third Jews. The Germans forced more than 7,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, on a ______________________ from Dachau to Tegernsee far to the south. During the march, SS guards shot anyone who could no longer continue; many also died of hunger, cold, or exhaustion. 8. On April 29, __________, American forces liberated Dachau. They found more than 30 railroad cars filled with decomposed bodies, as well as corpses laying unburied around the camp and many sick prisoners. The number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau between 1933 and 1945 exceeded ________________. It is unlikely that the total number of victims who died in Dachau will ever be known. Task 3: Find words or phrases in the text that correspond to the following meanings. a type of prison where political prisoners, etc. are kept in extremely bad conditions (para 1): _________________ members of organisations responsible to protect the interest of workers (para 2): _________________ members of a religious organization based on Christianity, which believes that the end of the world is near and that only good people will come back to life and live peacefully forever (para 2): _________________ a race of people, originally from Asia, who traditionally travel around and live in caravans (para 2): ____________ an incident that occurred in Germany on November 1938, when the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues, homes, schools and businesses (para 2): _________________ large ugly buildings in a camp (para 4): _________________ the practice of painless killing (without pain) a person who is suffering from a disease that cannot be cured (para 5): _________________ the group of countries that fought together against Germany, Italy and Japan (the Axis powers) in World War II (para 6): _________________ Task 4: Answer these questions according to the transcript about Dachau. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. When was the camp established and by whom? Which big German city is located at about 10 miles from Dachau? Who were the people held at Dachau? In 1937, who did the expansion works at the camp? Name the two sections making up the whole camp. What security arrangements were put in place at the camp? Give 3 examples of atrocities carried out on the prisoners. What caused epidemics at the camp? In April 1945, how were prisoners taken from Dachau to Tegernsee? Who liberated the camp and what did they find there? American forces. Task 5: Look up the following set of Holocaust terminology and explain each term in your own words. Communism: Fascism: Nazism: Aryan master race: scientific racism: Nazi eugenics: Final Solution: Action T4: ghettos: concentration camps: death camps: extermination: genocide: gas chamber: collaborator: enemy of the state: Holocaust deniers: Nuremberg trials: