is a city in southern Germany , in the Federal State of Bavaria . Located at , just 20 km away from Munich , it has become a popular housing area for people working in Munich, and now has roughly 40,000 inhabitants. The town has a historic city centre, with a castle built in the 18th Century .
Dachau was founded in the 8th Century , and was the home of many artists during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries . The writer Ludwig Thoma was born there.
Dachau is best known for the proximity of the relatively well-preserved site of the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp , the first large-scale Concentration Camp in Germany, converted from an old gunpowder factory by the Nazi regime in 1933 .
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