Place · Central Europe
Munich
City where Dachau opened in 1933, where Hitler authorized Kristallnacht, and where survivors later printed the Talmud and Israeli athletes were murdered in 1972.
48.1319°N 11.5731°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Munich ↗
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Dachau, the first concentration camp, opened outside Munich in March 1933, with Jews among the earliest inmates.
On the night of 9 to 10 November, Hitler secretly authorized Goebbels's proposal for so-called spontaneous demonstrations.
A 1946 Munich Talmud showed the camps ringed by wire and Jews walking toward the Land of Israel.
In 1972 Black September seized Israeli athletes at the Munich Games. Eleven were killed after a failed rescue.
Community: Bavarian displaced persons
Jewish births in the camps reached 14.1 per thousand in 1946, against 5 per thousand among Bavarian non-Jews in 1945.
A 1946 Munich Talmud showed the camps ringed by wire and Jews walking toward the Land of Israel.
In 1946 the American zone contained four yeshivas, 18 rabbis, 16 slaughterers, and four very busy circumcisers.