Dachau
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Dervla Murphy | When the Second World War broke out, her father was psychologically incapable of desiring a British victory. Therefore, though he too had detested Nazism before the war, he sought relief in believing that it was... |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | This novel features sunny Dorset in summer as its predecessor featured city fog in winter; it reflects the intensive study of Shakespeare that IM
had undertaken on finishing The Red and the Green. It... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Figes | EF
's father, Emil Eduard Unger
, was imprisoned in Dachau
(the earliest concentration camp) in 1938, but was released again by March 1939. As a refugee in England he joined the Pioneer Corps
... |
Textual Features | Anita Desai | The novel begins in the present: the day of the death of Hugo Baumgartner. Hugo went to work in Calcutta as a very young man at the start of the Second World War as a... |
Timeline
1938: An International Red Cross report on Dachau,...
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1938
An International Red Cross
report on Dachau
, extraordinarily, praised the camp as well regulated, the regime as severe but not inhumane, and the treatment of the sick as positively kind.
29 April 1945: The concentration camp at Dachau was opened...
National or international item
29 April 1945
The concentration camp at Dachau was opened by US soldiers.
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