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Dachau Uprising

Dachau Uprising
Part of European theatre of World War II

Dachau concentration camp memorial
DateApril 28th, 1945- April 29th (American liberation)
Location
Dachau, Germany
Result

Revolt Failed

Belligerents
Schutzstaffel
and Volkssturm units
  • Escaped Dachau Prisoners
  • Dachau citizens
  • Deserters
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Georg Schmid
Walter Neff
Georg Scherer[1]
Casualties and losses
~35–50 SS guards killed in post-liberation reprisals
  • Several deaths, including 7 citizens who were killed or executed
  • Damage to several buildings, including the town hall, caused by the use of bazookas, anti-tank guns, and grenade launchers
  • 40 captured[2]

The Dachau Uprising (German: Dachauer Aufstand)[3] was a revolt of Dachau prisoners, citizens of Dachau and deserters on 28th April, 1945,[4] aimed at disempowering party officials willing to fight, as well as Schutzstaffel (SS) and Volkssturm units during the last stages of World War II. It also sought to end Nazi rule in the town, prevent the liquidation of the concentration camp and the murder of the surviving prisoners[5][6]

In late April 1945, as Allied forces approached, the SS began evacuating prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp to prevent their liberation.[7] At least 10.000[8][9] inmates from the Dachau camp and it's satellite camps were forced onto grueling death marches toward Tyrol.[10] Thousands perished along the way due to exhaustion, starvation, and mistreatment.[11]

  1. ^ "Dachau".
  2. ^ "Von der SS erschossen".
  3. ^ Tuchel, Johannes (2005). Der vergessene Widerstand: zu Realgeschichte und Wahrnehmung des Kampfes gegen die NS-Diktatur (in German). Wallstein Verlag. p. 95. ISBN 978-3-89244-943-0.
  4. ^ Langbein, Hermann (15 January 2016). ... nicht wie die Schafe zur Schlachtbank: Widerstand in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern 1938–1945 (in German). FISCHER Digital. ISBN 978-3-10-560897-5.
  5. ^ "Dachau - Wiederaufbauatlas :: Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte". hdbg.eu. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ "The Last Days of the Dachau Concentration Camp". The National WWII Museum. New Orleans. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  8. ^ Der große ,,Evakuierungsmarsch" in die ,,Alpenfestung" ,,Am Morgen des 26. April erfolgte das Startsignal zur Teilräumung des KZ Dachau selbst. Die SS befahl, daß sich Reichsdeutsche, Russen und Juden auf dem Dachauer Appellplatz aufzustellen hätten, und am Abend wurden dann knapp 7000 Haftlinge, rund ein Viertel davon Juden, in Gruppen zu 1500 mit dem Ziel Ötztal unter SS-Bewachung aus dem Lager getrieben. Die Häftlinge selbst wußten nicht, wohin sie kamen." p.18
  9. ^ Befreiung des KZ Dachau ,,Some 6900 inmates of Dachau concentration camp had already been ‘evacuated’ on the evening of April 26, 1945 to keep them out of reach of the advancing Americans. The column of emaciated people was driven south along the river Würm. The night-time death march took them through Pasing and onwards through the Würmtal communities to Leutstetten, where they took their first rest on the morning of April 27. Here the column met around 2000 inmates who had been ‘evacuated’ from the Allach satellite camp the day before. On the evening of April 27, the column of inmates, which by now had grown to an estimated 10,000 people, continued their march along the east side of Lake Starnberg towards the Loisachtal valley."
  10. ^ Schwartz, Eliezer (1 January 2011). "The Death Marches from the Dachau Camps to the Alps during the Final Days of World War II in Europe". Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust. doi:10.1080/23256249.2011.10744408. ISSN 2325-6249.
  11. ^ "Dachau Concentration Camp 1933–1945". KZ Gedenkstätte Dachau. Retrieved 21 October 2023.

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