Definition of dachau in English English dictionary
{i} World War II Nazi concentration camp and site of many cruel medical experiments performed on living people by Nazi doctors
a concentration camp in southern Germany in which many Jews and other prisoners were killed during World War II. First Nazi concentration camp in Germany, established in 1933. It became the model and training center for all other SS-organized camps. In World War II the main camp was supplemented by about 150 branches in southern Germany and Austria, which were collectively called Dachau. It was the first and most important camp at which laboratories were set up to perform medical experiments on inmates. Such experiments and the harsh living conditions made Dachau one of the most notorious camps, though it was not designed as an extermination camp
a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany