Gas Chamber at Dachau Beginning in February 1942, Jews in
Germany and the German-occupied countries were rounded up by the
Nazis and deported to the East, according to plans made at the
Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. In April 1942, the
decision was made to build a new crematorium with four ovens at
Dachau; four disinfection chambers and a homicidal gas chamber
were to be included in the new building which was to be called
Baracke X. On the blueprints for Baracke X, the homicidal gas
chamber was called a shower room, but each of the four
disinfection chambers was called a Gaskammer, the German word
for gas chamber. An order was issued from Berlin on July 23,
1942 to begin construction of Baracke X at a cost of 150,000
Reichsmark. By the time that Baracke X was finished in 1943,
millions of European Jews had already been killed in the gas
chambers at Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor after being
transported to the East, and millions more were destined to be
sent to the death camps at Auschwitz and Majdanek