What Was It Like in the Concentration Camp at Dachau?; An Attempt to Come Closer to the Truth

Munich, Germany: Manz A.G., 1960. Seventh Edition. Wraps. good. 80 pages. Wrap. Illustrations. Plans. Introduction is dated 1960. Mailing label affixed to title page. Some wear to cover edges. This was prepared for the Trustees for the Monument of Atonement in the Concentration Camp as Dachau. Dr. Neuhausler was the Auxiliary Bishop of Munich. Johannes Neuhäusler (born 27 January 1888 in Eisenhofen near Dachau, Germany, December 14, 1973 in Munich) was a German Catholic theologian and ecclesiastical resistance fighter in the Third Reich. From 1941 to 1945 he was interned as a special prisoner in the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. From 1947 he was an auxiliary bishop in the Archbishopric of Munich and Freising. He was sent to the police prison in Berlin, where he was "welcomed" by an SS man with an earphone on May 24, 1941, and returned to Bavaria, Dachau With his companions, pastor Karl Kunkel, Michael Höck, the chief editor of the Munich Catholic church newspaper, as well as the Protestant pastor Martin Niemoller. On April 24, 1945, after more than four years of concentration camp, Neuhäusler was transported by bus from the protection armed force to South Tyrol along with other Dachau prisoners (among them former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, General Halder and Reichsbank President Schacht). Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. Opened in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps, which were mostly work camps or Arbeitskommandos, and were located throughout southern Germany and Austria. The camps were liberated by U.S. forces on 29 April 1945. Prisoners lived in constant fear of brutal treatment and terror detention including standing cells, floggings, the so-called tree or pole hanging, and standing at attention for extremely long periods. There were 32,000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands that are undocumented. Approximately 10,000 of the 30,000 prisoners were sick at the time of liberation. In the postwar years the Dachau facility served to hold SS soldiers awaiting trial. After 1948, it held ethnic Germans who had been expelled from eastern Europe and were awaiting resettlement, and also was used for a time as a United States military base during the occupation. It was finally closed in 1960. There are several religious memorials within the Memorial Site, which is open to the public.