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Visitor Biden in Dachau 2015
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"One must not be silent"
Photo: David Lienemann / The White House / laif
Joe Biden had announced a "very private" visit to the Dachau concentration camp memorial with his 15-year-old granddaughter for Sunday afternoon.
However, the effort is always great when a US Vice President arrives.
And so in February 2015 a convoy of several dozen vehicles rolled into the district town northwest of Munich.
The first state concentration camp in Bavaria was established here in March 1933.
Here SS men were trained to torture prisoners before they were transferred to other camps.
Here in the "Third Reich" at least 41,500 people died of disease, hunger, torture or were killed directly.
Grandfather Biden wanted to show granddaughter Finnegan what humans are capable of.
A 95-year-old man in a wheelchair was waiting at the Jourhaus, the entrance to the former prisoner camp.
Max Mannheimer, survivor and president of the Dachau camp community, lost his wife, parents and two siblings in the Holocaust.
Together with the director of the memorial site Gabriele Hammermann, he accompanied the prominent visit to the barracks, the crematorium, and the gas chamber.
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