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Dachauer Initiative Death March Memorial

A few days prior to the liberation of Concentration Camp Dachau and its biggest subsidiary camps Mühldorf/Ampfing and Landsberg/Kaufering in late April 1945, the SS forced at least ten thousand prisoners on a death march towards the Alps.

Thousands of people died of exhaustion and illness. Those who were no longer able to stay on their feet were shot or beaten to death without mercy. Just before the liberation the same number of people died among those displaced to Dachau, in particular Jews, prisoners from the Soviet Union and so-called German prisoners.

In Dachau, the point of departure of the path of unspeakable grief, an impressive bronze sculpture created by professor Hubertus von Pilgrim, citizen of Munich, was erected in 2001.
The non-partisan Dachauer Initiative Death March Memorial had campaigned for erecting this sculpture, modelled on Gauting, in Dachau as well, the point of departure of the death march. For this they gained the support of a full range of donor as well as the major district town of Dachau and the district of Dachau.

Dachauer Initiative Death March Memorial