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Dachau

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Da⋅chau

  [dah-kou; Ger. dah-khou]
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a city in SE Germany, near Munich: site of Nazi concentration camp. 33,200.
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Da·chau   (dä'kou', -KHou')   
A city of southeast Germany north-northwest of Munich. It was the site of a Nazi concentration camp built in 1935 and captured by the Allies in April 1945. Population: 40,500.
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Dachau [(dah-kow, dah-khow)]

A concentration camp established by the Nazis in southern Germany. (See Holocaust.)

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