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    • Dag 4

      Dachau, and Olympic Park

      24. februar 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      After a hearty breakfast we caught the local train and bus to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, approximately 16km north of Munich.

      Dachau was the longest operating concentration camp, established by Hitler in 1933 to house political prisoners. It was designed to accommodate 2,600 inmates, but when it was liberated in 1945, 32,000 prisoners were present.

      There's very few original buildings now standing, the notable exception being the crematorium. Mass killings didn't occur at Dachau, but overwork, overcrowding and poor diet led to high levels of illness and death.

      After lunch we returned to the central train station, then caught a tram to Olympic Park, site of the 1972 Olympic Games. We got good views of the area from the top of Olympic Mountain, one of the highest points in Munich with 360 degree views of the city. Our visit was cut short when it started raining, but not before we found one of the best caches we've ever seen, built into the geodetic reference marker on top of the hill.

      Dinner was at a traditional Bavarian restaurant, pork knuckle and beer beef goulash 😋
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    • Dag 111

      Dachau, Germany

      10. juli 2022, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 63 °F

      We went to the Dachau Concentration camp today. Dachau is only about an hour outside of Munich and was the first concentration camp that Hitler had built. It also was the only camp that was active for all 12 years (1933-1945). It was difficult to walk thru the site, read the stories and picture the horror that took place there.

      The camp began as a prison for political prisoners/enemies of Hitler only, but then grew to one of the largest concentration camps of WW2 housing Jews from multiple countries. It was built to house 2700 - but at its peak, there were 64,000 prisoners there at one time.

      The main exhibition hall has been put in the old buildings - and it is walls and walls of stories and of the history of this place. It was overwhelming reading them. We spent a couple hours there, but to read them all would have taken all day.

      We were allowed to walk thru one of the barracks they lived in. Most had been demolished, but two were still intact. Each barrack had almost 1000 people squished in trying to survive.

      Seeing where they prepared the bodies for execution was almost too much. We walked thru the actual gas chamber they used (disguised as “showers”) and then saw the crematoriums. They said in the end they didn’t “waste time” gassing anyone, they would simply hang them on the wooden beam in front of the crematorium chambers until dead, and then burn them.

      Eventually, they quit burning the bodies and just piled them outside the fences. When the Allies arrived in 1945 to liberate the camp, they first came upon the thousands of dead bodies in stacks, before they could ever get to the gates.

      I had read that if you ever get a chance to see a concentration camp first hand, you should do it. I definitely agree. It was very moving and emotional. To walk where they walked, to stand where they stood, to see where they died … something I’ll never forget. Something no one should ever forget.
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    • Dag 36

      36. Füssen - Munich Via Alpine Road

      11. mars, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      Today we enjoyed the morning at the campsite before carrying on down the Alpine road. We did all the services on the van before heading towards Bad Tölz, the road was super scenic and we passed some big lakes and Germany's highest mountain, called Zugspitze, which is just under 3000 mtrs high. En route we did a big food shop to stock us up for the next few days. We went over a lovely mountain pass again to nearly 1000mtrs which is screenshotted below, Gracie drove this one as I drove the last one and it all was successful, despite being so windy, Maddy joined us in the cab for this one 😂

      When we arrived at Bad Tölz, we decided to head to Munich as we wanted to visit the city as we haven't been to a big German city yet. There is also a concentration camp called Dachau which we want to visit. We headed to a park up just outside Munich, which is ideal as we can jump straight onto the train to Munich and then visit the camp the following day.

      It is a slightly dodgy car park so not too sure what to do with Maddy when we head to Munich, but still nice to finally find a cheap park up as south Bavaria has been very expensive!

      After updating penguins we are watching a film called One Life and then early night for big day tomorrow in Munich.
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    • Dag 9

      Dachau Concentration Camp

      18. juni 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      Concentration camp.
      The first permanent camp ever made - became the blue print for the rest. I didn't take many photos because it was extremely icky.

      Needed a beer after the 5 hour experience! 😩

      Also, snail
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    • Dag 15

      Dachau en Donau

      16. juli 2022, Tyskland ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      Floor en ik zijn vandaag naar Dachau ( concentratiekamp) geweest, even heel serieus dus !
      Zeer indrukwekkend maar ook blij dat veel jeugd aanwezig was, zodat ook zij zien wat er zich heeft afgespeeld en dit misschien kunnen voorkomen.
      Daarna naar een gratis camperplek aan de Donau, helaas geen zwemmen , daar is de stroming te sterk voor. Wc's niet zo proper. Gelukkig hebben we ook onze eigen. Poepen maar even niet en ophouden tot de volgende stop.
      Maar wel Bbq en vanavond 3 vuurplekken met de andere camperaars,
      Nu al zin in.
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    • Dag 2

      Dachau Concentration Camp

      3. mai 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      It was extremely sobering to see the condition 200000 POWs had to endure. The weather was quite warm when we went through the camp but the rooms were still very cold. I hate to think what the temperature would be like in the middle of the winter. Bathing conditions were so minute and the bunk beds were literally like hard tables.Les mer

    • Dag 3

      Dachau

      6. mai 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      A quelques minutes de Munich se trouve le camp de concentration de Dachau. Nous avons pu le visiter ce matin.

      "Le travail rend libre" est inscrit sur la porte en fer à l'ouverture de camp.

      Pour tous ces hommes qui sont venus ici pour notre liberté, merci 💪🏻Les mer

    • Dag 17

      Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial

      12. oktober 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F

      Sobering, but absolutely worth going to. Dachau was the first concentration camp and the model for others, the training site of the SS, and the only camp in operation throughout the 12 year Nazi campaign. The large map shows the full size of the site when it was in operation. The smaller map is of the crematorium (the room with holes in the roof is the gas chamber). The wide open space was the "roll call" area.Les mer

    • Dag 15

      Dachau

      27. juli 2022, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      A hard day today - at Dachau Concentration Camp. It was a brilliantly assembled exhibition and memorial but a harrowing site to visit. Some of the site was reconstruction but it would be hard to know that without the presented information. In the prisoners camp, through a (replica) gate which says 'Arbeit Macht Frei', the maintenance building housed an exhibition from the end of WWI to the opening of Dachau, and then on explaining how Dachau was used, grew and changed over time before liberation on 29 April 1945, and the ensuing Dachau trials.

      Beyond the reconstructed barrack blocks, there were Protestant, Catholic and Jewish memorials. At the crematorium, it was difficult to walk past the ovens and through the gas chamber (which wasn't used en masse in the way it was at other camps, but still). The gardens surrounding the crematorium had been made into memorials for the ashes that had been deposited in them.

      We followed the Path of Remembrance back to Dachau town, this was the 3km route many prisoners were forced to walk to the camp.
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    • Dag 40

      Dachau and art gallery

      29. juni 2022, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

      Today we woke up and did a group tour of the Dachau concentration camp which we learned was the first one there was. The tour was very informational and sad but important to see. The guide was very knowledgeable and offered a lot of information as he’d been doing it everyday for 10 years. The whole tour took most of the day but we spent the rest of the afternoon at the Alte Pinakothek art gallery where there were some Van Goghs and Monets. Then we met up with some of the people from the hostel for the night.Les mer

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