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| Inside the barracks they have three different areas to show how the bunks changed over the years as the camp became more crowded and was expanded (the prisoners did all the work). The camp was built to originally hold 5,000 prisoners and there were approximately 30,000 prisoners there when it was liberated in 1945 (it had been rebuilt and expanded over the years but was still overcrowded). The first set of bunks had separate areas with a small shelf for each prisoner. As the camp grew the bunks were built without sides and no shelf and finally the bunks were built as long open areas where prisoners were crammed together. | |||
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| The first picture is the old crematorium, they couldn't keep up with the amount of bodies that they needed to cremate so in 1942 they built (again the prisoners built) the new Barrack X. This brick building housed the disinfection chambers (to rid clothing of lice), the mortuary, the new crematorium with 4 ovens that could hold more bodies at once (and also used the open beams to hang prisoners). | |||
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Barrack X also held the reportedly never used gas chamber (there are conflicting reports). The gas chamber was disguised as a shower room with psuedo shower heads in the ceiling. There are two doors located on one wall (you can see these in the photos inside the room and outside). These are where they could drop the gas (zyklon-b) into the chamber. Dachau pg 3 | |