Tuesday we went to Dachau Germany where the first concentration camp was opened. We were all somber as we walked trough the iron gate the said "Work hard for your freedom." The Germans saw the Jews as lazy and paracites that leached all their wealth from society, so they had this saying all over the camp. All the buildings on site were built by the prisoners there. The gates opened up into a huge graveled area. Most of the bunkhouses had been leveled, but there were two left standing. the main house used by the Germans as a headqua
ters and punishment house was turned into a museum that told the stories accounted by the prisoners about their life and often death in the camp and even of their life after being liberated from the camp by American troops. Just outside the camp is two crematoriums. They have a room for where they would take them and have them strip so that they could sanitize their clothes, then they would led th prisoners into a waiting room and then into the gas chambers, where the unsuspecting prisoners would be killed by toxic gases. The bodies would then be dragged into the next ro
om where they would then take them into the room with four ovens for cremation. There are two separate memorials erected on the grounds, one for all the Jews that died at the camp and the other is for all those that died or suffered there with a cross erected in the center of it. Seeing the camp in person makes you sick to think that 60,000 people died there.
ters and punishment house was turned into a museum that told the stories accounted by the prisoners about their life and often death in the camp and even of their life after being liberated from the camp by American troops. Just outside the camp is two crematoriums. They have a room for where they would take them and have them strip so that they could sanitize their clothes, then they would led th prisoners into a waiting room and then into the gas chambers, where the unsuspecting prisoners would be killed by toxic gases. The bodies would then be dragged into the next ro
om where they would then take them into the room with four ovens for cremation. There are two separate memorials erected on the grounds, one for all the Jews that died at the camp and the other is for all those that died or suffered there with a cross erected in the center of it. Seeing the camp in person makes you sick to think that 60,000 people died there.
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