Dachau was the first and longest-running concentration ... Hope witnessed senseless killings, a gas chamber that was always running, evil experiments on prisoners and true starvation.

In 1942, Sigmund Rascher and others conducted high-altitude experiments on prisoners at Dachau. Eager to find ... they placed inmates into low-pressure chambers that simulated altitudes as high ...

Guest columnist Bob Couch, in his recent guest column “Let’s leave ‘Age of Ignorance’ behind” [Jan. 29], repeats his story about being in the gas chamber at Dachau in 1960, where “thousands” were ...

In 1933, the Dachau camp was commissioned by Heinrich Himmler as the first concentration camp in Germany. In the beginning, mainly political prisoners were imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp.