Rent Holocaust: Concentration Camps: Dachau and Sachsenhausen (1945)
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"Dachau Concentration Camp", was situated 12 miles northwest of Munich in Bavaria. Built in the early days of the Nazi regime it was one of three camps set up in 1933 to form the basis for a concentration camp system. Initially filled with communist and Jewish inmates Dachau's doors were soon opened to many other "undesirables" that the Nazis wanted to eradicate. Dachau was one of the worst and most notorious death camps and the scene of hundreds of medical experiments carried out on inmates. During 1941 and 1942 over 500 horrendous operations were performed on healthy prisoners. In the last year of the war more than 40,000 prisoners perished in Dachau. "Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp" was situated in Oranienburg, a small town immediately to the north of Berlin, Sachsenhausen began life in 1933 and became one of the first unofficial concentration camps set up by the SA. The official camp was established in 1936 and initially housed political prisoners. With 44 sub-camps and external units, Sachsenhausen was one of the largest concentration camps in Germany. Between 1936 and its liberation in 1945, 200,000 prisoners from many countries were interned in the camp; few survived. - Actors:
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, George S. Patton, Hayden Sears, Herman Bolker, Adolf Wahlmann, Karl Willig, Jack Taylor, Josef Kramer
- Directors:
- George Stevens
- Producers:
- John Ford
- Aka:
- Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps / Nazi Concentration Camps
- Studio:
- Oracle Home Entertainment
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest, TV Documentaries
