Dachau concentration camp United States Army", Vol. 3, page 382. Authorities worked night and day to alleviate conditions at the camp immediately following the liberation as an epidemic of black typhus swept through the prisoner population. Two thousand cases had already been reported by that 3 May. By October of the same year the camp was being used by the U.S. Army as a place of confinement for war criminals, the SS and important witnesses. It was also the site of the Dachau Trials for German war criminals, a site chosen for its symbolism. In 1948 the Bavarian government established housing for refugees
Dachau art colony urban and industrial subjects — began to leave Dachau colony artists behind. After World War II, the art colony was nearly forgotten as Dachau became associated in most people's minds above all with the Dachau concentration camp. Dachau art colony The Dachau art colony was an artists' colony located in Dachau, Germany, that flourished from around 1890 until 1914. In the early 19th century, the then-bucolic village of Dachau (located just 12 miles from Munich) began attracting landscape painters. By the second half of the century, Barbizon-influenced painters like Carl Spitzweg and Christian Morgenstern, and academic painters like Wilhelm von