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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 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 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 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 13

      Visit to Dachau

      28. mai, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F

      Made a solo trip to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial site. Only about 10 miles from Garching it was a simple matter of transferring across 3 bus routes and doing a minimum of walking as I was picked up and dropped off at the bus stop right out the door of my hotel and at the Memorial entrance. The memorial site itself is large, but still only a portion of what it consisted of at its peak of operation during WWII.

      Being in such a place of evil and suffering was emotionally draining, and an intense reminder of the horrors humans are capable of inflicting on others out of ignorance and fear. But it was also inspiring in terms of the human spirit of endurance embodied by the prisoners in unimaginable circumstances. I’m appreciative of the opportunity to see it first hand after not making it to the Auschwitz Memorial when I was in Krakow in 2018.

      Came back to the hotel, got in a nap and took some calls for work, and had the chance for a final dinner in Garching with Scott.

      Tomorrow Scott and I head via train and bus (due to track repairs underway) for Füssen and a possible Atomics game the day after. I say “possible” as the weather forecast isn’t great, and the headcount for the Atomics puts them at 9 players for the doubleheader, mostly due to players being on vacation.

      Pix from the day are attached.
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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 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 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 3

      Dachau - Ort des Grauens

      9. april 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C

      Nach der vielen guten Laune der letzten 2 Tage ging es nun geschichtlich und kulturell weiter. Zuerst in das Konzentrationslager in Dachau. Etwa 2h waren wir insgesamt hier, wir hätten uns aber auch länger hier aufhalten können. 1933 erbaut als "Prototyp" und Gefangenenlager für verschiedene Menschengruppen sind bis 1939 auch nur weniger Menschen hier gestorben. Dachau wurde auch offiziell nie als Vernichtungslager gebraucht. Ab 1939, zum Beginn des 2. Weltkriegs, stieg dann die Brutalität und Gewält im Lager und damit auch die Opfer. Am 29. April 1945 folgte dann die Befreiung durch die Amerikaner. Wir haben die Stehzellen, einen Nachbau der Baracken, das schreckliche Krematorium mit der Gaskammer besucht. Diese wurde damals den Inhaftierten als Dusche mit "Brausebad" verkauft. Ein schrecklicher Ort, der trotzdem ein Teil der Geschichte der Menschen ist.Les mer

    • Dag 38

      38. Dachau Concentration Camp

      13. mars, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

      Today we both woke up aching a little from all the walking yesterday, so we decided to drive instead of bike to Dachau concentration Camp.

      We headed into the camp and firstly stopped at the prison, it was very detailed when explaining the crimes which the Nazi's made against these innocent people. If you made it into camp prison, you were in for a very rough time. Towards the end of the war they even filled the cells with partions so they couldn't lie nor sit down and they would keep prisoners in here for days at a time.

      We then headed into the main building of the camp , here it explained about how the camp was ran. Despite being only a small camp, they had 188,000 inmates. The living conditions were awful and disease spread quickly. It was already running by 1933 and ran up to being liberated by the US army.

      We visited the memorial and the mass grave outside the front of the building, still felt sickening that this ever happened, was a really emotional day reading the individual stories. Afterwards we headed into the only block left which the inmates shared. The last stop was the worse bit, it was a visit to a Gas chamber and crematorium. This was really sad and felt quite unnerving to visit. The Nazi's had destroyed all records before the camp was liberated and have declined any evidence of the gas chambers really being used, but this has always been testified by the survivors. It is estimated that 44,000 people died whilst the camp was running.

      Afterwards we started to head towards Bad Tolz, the van went into intermittent limp mode to add to the emotions, so we stopped and seeked advice with a garage, who managed to clear the fault and send us on our way. They did this for free despite being offered some money, was very kind of them.

      We gave the van a run and it seemed to run fine so we carried on our journey, after stopping for the van services we headed to a free park up by a sports complex. We had a nice evening in the end watching "The Gentleman" on Netflix, definitely worth a watch.
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