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  • Gustav Esslinger (1875 - 1938)
  • Hermann Klaber (1899 - 1942)
    Hermann was born in Hoven-Sinzenich and lived in Cologne and Rheinbach. 1933 he was a merchant and shopkeeper in Rheinbach, Hauptstrasse 58. A few days after Kristallnight, on November 15, 1938, he was...
  • Josef Edelstein (1901 - 1944)
  • Heinrich/Jindřich Reich (1906 - 1945)
  • Siegfreid Sax (1880 - 1939)
    Siegfried Sax was interned in the KZ-Dachau from 16 November 1938 to 19 December 1938.

Dachau concentration camp was the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (9.9 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, which is located in southern Germany.

Opened 22 March 1933 (51 days after Hitler took power), it was the first regular concentration camp established by the coalition government of the National Socialist Party (Nazi Party) and the German Nationalist People's Party (dissolved on 6 July 1933). Heinrich Himmler, then Chief of Police of Munich, officially described the camp as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners."

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