Dachau
Dachau Concentration Camp roll call grounds. The SS carried out the roll call and the punishments on this space. Prisoners were also flogged in front of their fellow inmates in this area. By the end of 1940, more than 1,000 clergy were held in Dachau, confined to one of the camp’s 32 barracks. Eventually, the Nazis sent nearly 2,700 clergymen there during World War II. According to one source, nearly 93% of them were Catholic, and 64% of them were Poles. With the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, thousand of Soviet prisoners were sent to Dachau were they were shot at a nearby rifle range.
Dachau
Dachau Concentration Camp roll call grounds. The SS carried out the roll call and the punishments on this space. Prisoners were also flogged in front of their fellow inmates in this area. By the end of 1940, more than 1,000 clergy were held in Dachau, confined to one of the camp’s 32 barracks. Eventually, the Nazis sent nearly 2,700 clergymen there during World War II. According to one source, nearly 93% of them were Catholic, and 64% of them were Poles. With the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, thousand of Soviet prisoners were sent to Dachau were they were shot at a nearby rifle range.