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The following is from a book purchased from the memorial on the site
of the Dachau camp in December 1993.
"In 1940, as the death rate continued to increase, a camp cremation
with one incinerator was built. In the course of the mass
extermination plan, a bigger plant with a gas chamber and four
incinerators -- the so-called "Baracke X" -- was quickly erected in
1942. The gas chamber, which was camoflaged as a shower room, was
never put into use. Thousands of prisoners, who were selected for
extermination, were sent to other camps or to Hartheim Castle near
Linz to be gassed." (Distel et al., 173)
Work Cited
Distel, Barbara, and Ruth Jakusch, eds. Concentration Camp Dachau
1933-1945 (14th edition). Brussels: Commite Internationale de
Dachau, 1978.
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