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Album: Germany 2010
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Date: 2010-04-09 14:56:39
Tags: Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, Munich

Roll call ground

The prisoners had to assemble on the roll call ground every morning and evening for roll call. In all weather conditions, they were forced to stand to attention motionless, for about an hour. Sometimes even the dead had to be dragged to the roll call ground to be counted. If the number of prisoners on roll call did not match the official head-count - for example after an attempted escape - this torture could last many hours. It often happened that sick and weak prisoners collapsed during roll call. The other prisoners were forbidden to help them. On the roll call ground the SS carried out punishments for all the prisoners to see. In the final months before the liberation, large transports of prisoners arrived in Dachau and were brought first to the roll call ground. Many sick and exhausted prisoners died here.