According to the Museum Guidebook, there wereoriginally 32 barrack buildings like the reconstructed buildingabove, including two that were used as an infirmary. Each buildingwas 90 meters long by 10 meters wide. Inside are reconstructedrooms with two rows of three-tiered bunk beds, along a centeraisle, as they looked when the camp was opened in 1933, and alsothe more crowded bunk beds as they looked after the barracks populationgot progressively larger. The floors are bare, unstained and unvarnishedwood, and look as if they have just been scrubbed clean, the smellof disinfectant still lingering. A sign in the barracks explainsthat the prisoners had to keep their quarters clean, even beingrequired to remove their wooden shoes before entering the building.The beds had to be made up with the blue and white checkered bedsheets in precise alignment to form perfect parallels with thesides and ends. The prisoners at Dachau, throughout the 12 yearhistory of the camp, were predominantly men although Marcus J.Smith wrote in his book "The Harrowing of Hell" thatthere were 376 women in the camp when it was liberated. On myvisit to the Museum in May 1997, I did not notice any picturesof women in the Dachau camp in the photo exhibit. Click on thelink below to see a picture taken on liberation day which showsthe three-tier bunk beds, or click on the picture above to continuethe tour.