The Latest Breaking News from Dachau

Study claims Swiss firm provided Nazi concentration camp with anti-frostbite product used in tests in early 1940s

In 1929, Edgar Feuchtwanger was five years old and living with his family in Munich when Adolf Hitler moved into a flat opposite. At first, his parents thought they were safe hiding in plain sight – until they weren’t

‘I wanted them to see that you could not not know what was going on. Walking through those gates, you could not fail to understand as a country what was going on,’ he said

Artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele were once owned by Fritz Grünbaum, a cabaret performer who died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941.

In her indictment, the prosecutor described Ilse Koch as “a sexy-looking depraved woman who beat prisoners, reported them for beatings, and trafficked human skin”.

On 22 March 1933, the first concentration camp built by Nazi Germany opened near this town in Bavaria. It was initially intended to house Hitler’s political opponents

Named after a town outside Munich, Dachau was to become the model for the 44,000 camps and incarceration sites that followed. Marta Szpiro was one of its last inmates

Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk assassinated in Algeria.

Rachel Mars will create replica of concentration camp entrance over three days as part of Transform festival