dxAce wrote:

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You may want to get a feeling of Deja Vu he

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Münchner Neueste Nachrichten,

Tuesday, March 21, 1933

A Concentration Camp for Political Prisoners in the Dachau Area

In a statement to the press, Himmler, Munich's Chief of Police
announced:

On Wednesday the first concentration camp will be opened near
Dachau. It has a capacity of 5000 people. Here, all communist and-so far
as is necessary- Reichsbanner and Marxist officials, who endanger the
security of the state, will be assembled. In the long run, if government
administration is not to be very burdened, it is not possible to allow
individual communist officials to remain in court custody. On the other
hand, it is also not possible to allow these officials their freedom
again. Each time we have attempted this, the result was that they again
tried to agitate and organize. We have taken these measures without
concern for each pedantic objection encountered, in the conviction that
we act to calm the concerns of the nation's people, and in accordance
with their aims.

Himmler gave assurance that in each individual case, preventive
custody will not be maintained longer than necessary. It is obvious,
however, that the astonishingly large quantity of material evidence
seized will take a long time to be examined. This police will only be
delayed, if they are continually asked when this or that person in
preventive custody will be released. The incorrectness of rumors
frequently spread regarding the treatment of prisoners is shown by the
fact that for those prisoners who requested it, for example, Dr. Gerlich
and Frhr. v. Aretin, counseling by priests is supported and approved
without hesitation.

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