This is the entrance way to one of the most disturbing and thought provoking places we have ever visited.
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Dachau Concentration Camp is only about twenty minutes outside of Munich. The camp was one of the first, and largest, facilities of it's type run by the Germans.
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The building on the right was one of the solitary confinement areas.
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The solitary confinement areas were tiny and freezing cold, even in summer when we were there.
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Photographs do not indicate just how big this camp was.
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Hundreds and thousands passed through these gate. Thirty five thousand, that's only the ones that were counted, did not ever walk back through the gates alive.
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There were vivid displays of the "tests" that were conducted within the walls of this camp. They were enough to turn your stomach.
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A concrete pad in which one of the many huts that housed the prisoners once stood.
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This was described as the "communal shower" to unsuspecting prisoners. It was in fact one of three gas chambers. There was a door on both ends so that prisoners lining up for a "shower" could not see the fresh bodies being removed from the chamber.
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This was the "hospital clinic" area. Needless to say, most of the experiments and gassings were conducted in this building.
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Unless you visit the camp yourself, you'd never see what kind of barbarism man is capable of.
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It certainly opened our eyes as to the lows of despair and human suffering that people of all races endured while interned.
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Even now the camp feels eerie. It's like death and suffering is still lingering in the air.
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