Dachau Concentration Camp

Hundreds of thousands of people from all continents visit Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site each year. This guidebook was written by a former guide who worked at the Memorial Site and the book is designed to deal with some of the questions raised by visitors undertaking the `open tour' of the Memorial Site. Visitors were keen to understand who was imprisoned and why, they were curious to know how prisoners arrived and the procedure of being processed into `protective custody' at the concentration camp. Furthermore, they were interested as to the significance of the religious and non-denominational memorials and the importance of Baracke X. The book is designed to address these themes and to be used either as an aid when making a visit to the Memorial Site or it can be read independently as a complement to the existing literature. It is written in an accessible style with accounts of former prisoners used to illustrate the conditions which existed within the concentration camp.