Jourhaus

The Jour house was a building in the prisoner area of ​​the Dachau concentration camp and is now the entrance to the memorial. The name is derived from Jour " Jour Service " = day service ( Jour, French = day).

1933 prisoners were housed in buildings of the old munitions factory. Four years later, the SS had to create the new, large inmate area with the symmetrically arranged wooden huts and narrow with fences. Also, the Jour house was built in 1937. It was the only passage from the building site to the SS prisoner terrain. In Jourhaus to watch rooms of the SS were guarding the passage. Some premises of the camp administration were in the building ( camp Gestapo, the protective custody camp, block and report leader ). At night, the SS was on the towers and in Jourhaus, only on some days they controlled the barracks at night.

The Jourhaus was the only access to the new prisoner terrain. Newly arrived prisoners went through here the recording procedure of the camp.

In propaganda tour Visit the to 1938 took place, visitors passed through the gate with the inscription "Work makes you free ".

The prisoners in the work details crematorium had to go through this building to bring the dead by the prisoner to the crematorium grounds, which was located on the SS site.

When the camp was liberated on 29 April 1945 U.S. troops entered first the SS site. Then they came to Jourhaus and shot it. In the watchtowers a white flag was hoisted. Then the prison camp was liberated. Later it came to the question of who had entered the prison camp first, see Marguerite Higgins, or which American troops had finally liberated the concentration camps.

Also the concentration camps Gusen I had an entrance building, which bore the name Jourhaus.