Plaque unveiled in Dachau in memory of Azerbaijani prisoners of WWII concentration camp

A memorial plaque was unveiled at the Dachau Concentration Camp memorial complex in Germany to commemorate the Azerbaijani concentration camp prisoners held there during World War II, Report informs, citing the Azerbaijani Embassy in Germany.

The memorial plaque prepared at the initiative of the embassy in Azerbaijani and German languages is placed in the memorial hall of the complex.

The Dachau camp, established in 1933, was the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany. In the early years, the Nazi regime held its political opponents there, but after the outbreak of World War II, 25,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians were taken to this camp, where they were tortured and killed.

After studying the materials in Dachau, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Germany established the names of the soldiers of Azerbaijani origin held there.

The unveiling of the memorial plaque was attended by the Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Germany Nasimi Aghayev, the head of the apparatus of the Dachau memorial complex Albert Noll, the chairman of the German-Azerbaijani Forum Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer and the Munich rabbi Avigdor Berghaus.