An Experience

This last week the kids were at their grandparents with their mom, and so I had a few days off. Not gonna lie... I utilized most of the time by.. sleeping. Probably not the best thing I could have used it for, but I didn't have enough forewarning ahead of time to really turn the three days into a trip worth spending the money. One of the days actually I went to the Dachau Concentration Camp, right outside of Munich. I've been meaning to go for the last 8 months and I finally made it! This isn't really a "happy" post, but I would just like to share what I saw and a bit of what I learned. Just as a side note: I have really found that a lot of Germans carry this burden and deep feeling of sorrow that their people and family took part in such an event. Its hard for them to let it lay in the past and to not dwell on it... but I can see how they feel a constant nagging of trying to make up for what happened.

Basically "Work brings freedom"

This map is really amazing, it shows all of the concentration camps, ghettos, sub camps, etc. It really puts it all into perspective.

The entrance to the building where the prisoners lived.

If you look here this is where the prisoners slept... but now imagine hundreds of people just in this room... the living conditions were unlivable, the death toll was high... but I'm surprised it wasn't higher, the Lord was there.

Wash Room

Toilets... and again... this served for hundreds of people.

Inside the memorial looking.

At the edge of the camp, which was heavily guarded.

I don't think I need to explain.

Here is a gas chamber which I believed was actually never used at Dachau but was built anyway, prisoners were sent to other "extermination camps."

The original oven used... they were using it so much they had to create a larger room with more ovens as posted above.

God Bless all of my brothers and sisters who were prisoners in WWII.