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Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details. (Word count: 652)

Change: "Dachau." "Dachau." The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Ed. Walter Laqueur. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001."Dachau." Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Vol. 2. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 763-766. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale. NOVA SOUTHEASTERN   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 652)

Change: Poland to be gassed after "the Final Solution" became operational in 1942. The total number of prisoners killed in Dachau is not known.The SS evacuated Dachau by beginning a march of 7,000 prisoners on April 26,   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 532)

Change:  Many prisoners died or were maimed for life as a result of these experiments. There were also "selections" every so often in which the weak   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 427)

Change: 90,000 in the other branches. Although a gas chamber and crematories were built in 1942 - 1943, there is no evidence that the gas chamber was used for systematic mass murder. By 1945, at least 32,000 died of starvation and disease due to the typhus epidemic and the extreme overcrowding.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 296)

Change: rows surrounded by an electric fence. During World War II< approximately 150 branches of the main camp established in southern Germany and Austria were also called Dachau. The camp trained commandants for other concentration camps, including Rudolf Hoss, who became comandant of Auschwitz in 1940.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 144)

Change:  known for "medical" experiments, holding prominent prisoners, and conducting postwar trials. Originally opened as a "protective custody camp" for political prisoners, Dachau's first commander was Theodor Eicke, who later went on to become inspector general of all concentration camps.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 90)

Change:  Dauchau, a town north of Munich, was the cite of the first concentration camp.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 14)