The Lee Singers will be stopping at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum in travel to Munich in the final days of the trip. This will be one of the most important parts of the tour because of its historical significance. In March 1933, Dachau was chosen as the first site for a concentration camp, originally created for political prisoners, not long after Adolf Hitler became Reich Chancellor. It was one of the first concentration camps to be made and served as the model for all other later camps. In its twelve years of activity, over 200,000 prisoners came through the camp from all over Europe, and over 43,000 of those prisoners died. On April 20, 1945, American troops liberated the camp and its survivors. Now stands a museum and memorial in the very place where thousands lost their lives. This is the official site for the memorial. (To translate the page, click the English link in the top right hand corner of the page.) Pictured here is the memorial that has been crafted in remembrance of those that suffered and died in Dachau. The twisted metal resembles the barbed wire that surrounded the camp and images of captives are tangled within the wire.
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