Dachau, Germany

On Christmas, we slept in since most of the city was shut down due to the holiday. We decided to head out to the small town of Dachau, Germany, where there is a national monument. The monument is the highly depressing site of the Dachau Concentration Camp, the first concentration camp opened under the Nazi regime. The weather was quite chilly and damp, with some rain and this just added to the depressing feeling of the place. Most of the buildings are gone but there are two that have recreations of what the places looked like inside and to say the least, it is hard to imagine what the people there had to go through on a daily basis. There are tons of plaques with information on there and one noted that when the Americans liberated the camp in April of 1945, that the camp that was built for 6,000 had over 32,000 prisoners there. Our trip to the concentration camp took up most of our day and after some friendly advice from the guy at the front desk of our hostel, we returned to the beer hall from the first night to have dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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