As the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau on April 29,
1945 comes closer, I expect that there will be a lot of blog
posts, such as this one, written by people who have visited the
Memorial Site, who will ask why the residents of the town of
Dachau did not rise up and liberate the death camp that was
right in their back yards. Why didn’t the citizens of Dachau try
to stop the gassing, torture, starvation and humiliation of the
Jews in the concentration camp? The citizens of Dachau could
drive past the wall around the camp, which faced Alte
Römerstrasse, and see the guard towers shown in the photo below.
In today’s world, even the murder of one innocent minority
person is cause for a mass protest, as in the Trayvon Martin
case. Why didn’t the citizens of Dachau protest when the first
Nazi concentration camp was opened at Dachau in March 1933? I
wanted to know the answer to this question myself, so in 2001, I
went to the town of Dachau and stayed there for a whole week.
Before the Dachau camp was opene