Organic farming in the concentration camp: the “plantation” of Dachau

Organic farming in the concentration camp: the “plantation” of Dachau

View of the historic greenhouses on the site of the former DVA “herb garden” in Dachau.
picture alliance / SZ Photo / Niels Peter Jörgensen

In the Dachau concentration camp, the National Socialists experimented with natural medicine and organic farming – while the prisoners suffered under the most difficult conditions at work.

A plantation is commonly thought of as a facility for the colonial economy of European countries in other regions of the world. As is well known, the hallmark of this form of company was slave labor

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