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Brice Catherin - Dachau Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany

from Rocks I Have Taken by Maria Sappho

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Dachau Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany

Dachau Cooncerntration Camp was the first Nazi concentrations camped opened in 1933. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast Dachau. We all know well the horrors of the Holocaust, so little further be described. One notable choice in Dachau was forced musical torture.

Karl Röder recounted singing after forced labour-
“I don’t know how many hours I sang for in the camp.  It must have been thousands.  We sang when we went out to work, and sang when we came back to the camp.  We sang for hours on the roll-call square, in order to drown out the screams of the ill-treated, but we also sang when the camp commander felt like having us sing … They set great store on rhythm.  We had to sing in a brisk military manner, and above all loudly … After hours of singing we could often no longer produce a sound.  They knew that we saw this singing as punishment, and for that reason they always had us sing at military drills.”

Prisoners where opened forced to sing nostalgic german folk songs-
“Other inmates described the torture of Dachau’s ‘Moor Express’: while pulling heavy lorries like cattle – attached to the vehicle by ropes and beams – they were forced to sing in order to ‘keep the SS amused’.  Escaped prisoners who had been caught were forced to march through the camp holding the sign ‘I’m here again’, while being followed by a small orchestra.”

On April 29, 1945, KZ Dachau was surrendered to the American Army by SS-Sturmscharführer Heinrich Wicker.

This rock was taken with one other of its kind from the camp which is now a memorial site. I was raised by a woman who escaped to America because of the Nazi’s, her father died in Dachau. One rock went to מריון for her father.

Stories-

www.npr.org/2015/04/29/402971452/2-dachau-survivors-reflect-on-nazi-germany-s-first-concentration-camp
newrepublic.com/article/119850/1934-report-dachau-concentration-camp



Aerial photo of the Dachau complex with the actual concentration camp on the left

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp
www.npr.org/2015/04/29/402971452/2-dachau-survivors-reflect-on-nazi-germany-s-first-concentration-camp
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-dachau
holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/camps/music-early-camps/dachau/

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from Rocks I Have Taken, released April 30, 2020
Brice Catherin

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