The story
Date: 26 September 1939
Departure: Dachau
Arrival: Buchenwald
Known individual: A partial list of names mentions Matthias Spanlang, a priest from St. Martin im Innkreis. On 28 May 1940, he and Father Otto Neururer were taken to the feared camp bunker. Neither man came out alive.
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