Picture Postcard of Dachau

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.311

Object Name

Postcard, Picture

Date

5-30-1928

Files

Content Warning

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Description

Front: Panoramic view of the small town, many of the buildings covered by trees. A church is in the middle and is the tallest building in the picture. Back: Handwritten note. Leftside is the message in German cursive. Right side has the address on it. The upper righthand corner has a green stamp of Beethoven. The bottom has several numbers written in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A panoramic view of Dachau, a town in Upper Bavaria, mailed five years before it was to become the site of the infamous concentration camp, the first in Germany and the model for all to follow. Created by Himmler in March, 1933, the first inmates were political prisoners, communists and socialists. Within its first two years the prison population was to swell to over 100,000. Dachau was essentially born with the Third Reich and died with it, having lasted the entire 12 years of its existence.

Dimensions

3 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Keywords

Dachau, Bavaria

Subcollection

Concentration

Recommended Citation

"Picture Postcard of Dachau" (1928). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.311.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/569