I will only add this to his observations. One thing really shocked me when I visited five or six years ago. Just as you are entering the camp, there is a huge map on the outside wall of one of the buildings. It's a map of all the concentration and labor camps in greater Germany, circa 1944. I couldn't find that exact image, but it looked a lot like this (follow link or click picture to enlarge):
Note the box that says "Solid squares represent select camps. Because of the map scale, not all camps can be shown or labeled." The map at Dachau is about 10 x 15 feet, so all the sub-camps are shown. It's an amazing site. I had been under the impression that most camps were outside of Germany proper. But it was mainly the death camps that were outside the Reich. Germany was, in fact, covered with camps. A chilling reminder of what a real police state looks like.
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