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Questions our visitors frequently ask<\/h1>\n
\"Josef<\/p>\n
Josef Stressel, shot on 11.08.1940 “while trying to escape”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is it true that some prisoners
\nsucceeding in escaping from the Dachau
\nconcentration camp?<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Up until 1939 escape attempts were
\nvery rare, every successful escape had to be reported directly to Himmler and
\nthe Inspectorate of the Concentration Camps. The only escape attempt from the
\nmain Dachau
\ncamp where the fugitive could not be recaptured was managed by Hans Beimler in
\n1933. Under Camp Commandant Hans Loritz (1936-1939) there were two cases of
\nprisoners escaping, but they were apprehended again: Mathias Neumeyer from Munich in 1937 and Louis \u00dcbrig
\nfrom Saint Gallen in 1939. In the later years of the war escapes were more
\nfrequent from the external work details and the subcamps of the Dachau concentration
\ncamp. In the prisoner databank of the Memorial Site archive there are a total
\nof 582 entries bearing the remark that the prisoner escaped; it cannot be
\ndefinitively clarified in every case if the escapee was recaptured.<\/p>\n

Two other escapes from the Dachau concentration camp of greater
\nhistorical significance took place shortly before liberation: a group of 15
\nconcentration camp prisoners succeeded in escaping on April 27, 1945. The
\nprisoners joined the resistance fighters in the town of Dachau, occupying the town hall on April 28,
\n1945 with the aim of securing a peaceful handover of the town to the US Army.
\nSS men violently quelled the uprising. The second escape was managed by the
\nprisoner Karl Riemer on April 28, 1945. By the next day he had reached
\nPfaffenhofen where he informed the US Army about conditions in the camp and so
\nensured its prompt liberation.<\/p>\n

Separate consideration has to be given to those
\nescape attempts staged by the SS. Amongst the early dead in the Dachau camp and above all
\nin the years 1941\/42 are numerous prisoners who were allegedly shot while
\ntrying to escape; in truth however they were deliberately murdered by the SS
\nguards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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