Friday, our last cold rainy day in München, we spent outside at the Dachau Concentration Camp. During World War 2 this was one of the largest concentration camps and the only camp to have lasted the whole stretch of the war.
This memorial was placed infront of the main building which now holds the museum. It was created by one of the survivors of the Dachau camp.
These buildings are replicas of the ones that filled this area during WWII. Inside they have recreated what the living situation was for the prisoners. What was original built to hold 200 people ended up housing 2,000. The large open area was used as the role call area where prisoners were required to stand at attention everyday sometimes for hours while they made sure everyone was accounted for.
Each of these long rectangles represents a building, there were a total of 34. Most of them were used for housing prisoners while others were used for various purposes such as human experiments.
At the end of this long row there are several memorials dedicated to the men and women who suffered at Dachau. Everyday at 3:00 pm there is a large bell that rings for at least 10 minutes straight. We happened to be walking towards it when it started to ring.
After our walk through outside we spent a few hours in the main building that holds a large museum. There was so much information in that museum that one would have to spend a whole day or two in just that building. What is left of the concentration camp today only makes up about 1/4 of the true size that it was during the war.
1 comment:
Very moving pictures. I can't image being there in person.
(great pictures)
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