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Liberation of Dachau in 1945. Inmates still in their striped prison uniforms reach through the fence as US Army corporal Larry Mutinsk distributes cigarettes. Dachau was one of the infamous Nazi concentration camps to which Jews were sent during the Holocaust.

Site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, in Bavaria, Germany. The first such camp to be set up, it opened early in 1933 and functioned as a detention and forced labour camp until liberated in 1945.



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On the train to Dachau, we meet a gay prisoner (Chris) who helps me survive, and in the second act I fall in love with him.
Hundreds were eventually transfered to Dachau, near Munich, where the majority died of starvation or disease.
Until They Told You What it Did to Rachel": and you never even thought about it, / never once considered / how your offhand comparison / to those who had slaughtered / her aunts and uncles / in Dachau, Auschwitz, Treblinka // discounted unfathomable loss, / trivializing her heartbreak / with your careless use / of that one small word.
 
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