It's like a shower, only in the end you die.
Dachau was one of the model concentration camps of it's time meaning that a lot of the other concentration camps were modeled after it's structure and what not. This picture was taken in the Dachau Concentration camp crematorium which is still as it was during WWII. Visitors to the camp are allowed to walk through the site with limited restrictions. They can literally touch where so many people were murdered with their own two hands, see the row of trees lining the main road of the camp, experience it all. Just before i entered this room i snapped a shot of the door and later realized that it said "bath house" in the lettering. Going inside the "bath house" was intense...i got chills thinking of all of the people who had met their demise in that room, i was literally standing in a room where hundreds of thousands of people lost their life, or their children, spouse...anything. I will never be the same after experiencing that tour of a death camp. reading about it is one thing, but touching and smelling it and holding it in my hands is another thing entirely.
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On 28 May 2008 andy sunley said:
Well composed.
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On 19 June 2008 Sebastian said:
I have been to the Dachau camp several years ago and it is indeed a very depressing experience just to see the remains and documents of the evil men do. It just gives you a vague impression of how this must have been, and even this is hard to bear.
In one point I feel I have to put something right: our guide there told us that the gas chambers built in 1942/43 have in fact never been used. This is also what the German Historical Museum assumes. In 1942 Himmler ordered all jews in Dachau to be deported to Auschwitz. In Dachau the nazis simply killed people by forcing them to work until they died. This is what they cynically meant by "Arbeit macht frei" ("work shall set you free"). Not that this is any better. -
On 18 July 2008 Natalie S gave props:
Caitlin - good description. Very emotional image.
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