In Their Words: Stories of Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Resource: Photo

The gas chamber at Dachau Concentration Camp, 1945

date: 1945
source: Minnesota Historical Society
materials: Snapshot
ID: P2449 (location)

The horrors of the Holocaust became imprinted on the mind of the Allied forces that liberated the Concentration Camps in Germany. This photograph shows the gas chamber at Dachau Concentration Camp, where Jewish prisoners were murdered en masse.

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