Meanwhile communists, social democratic leaders, even monarchists and conservatives of the Bavaria People’s Party, opposition journalists, Jewish businessmen and other enemies on Heydrich’s card indexes were rounded up from lists already prepared before the take-over, and thrown into prisons in all the main towns in Bavaria and, when these were full, into wild concentration camps such as had been established in Prussia. One of these wild camps was extemporised by the local SS troop in a derelict munitions factory at Dachau on the northern outskirts of Munich. It was here that Himmler decided
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