Dachau Concentration Camp

On Wednesday on our way home from our little trip in Southern Germany we stopped at the Dachau Concentration Camp near Munich.

It was pouring down rain the whole time we were there.
It is hard to find words to describe this experience. It's hard to imagine what those people went through. It's really just a sad sad part of history.
It was really weird touching the walls and doorknobs, walking across the floor and camp itself knowing that thousands of people were tortured here and died a horrible death.

This is on the gate when you first walk in the camp, it says "Work will set you free" which was a lie.

 

This is a sink room where the special prisoners were allowed to wash up. A lot of special prisoners were at this camp. Specail prisoners were mostly priests from all denominations and they were given a little better treatment.

These are the bunk beds where 2-3 people would be in each bed. These aren't the actual beds. They had to burn all the baracks and furniture in them because of all the disease.

This is the creamatory. The sign said they would burn 2-3 dead bodies in these at a time.

This was a piece of artwork in the museum.

This is the gas chamber. For unknown reasons the gas chamber was never used at this concentration camp. At other concentration camps with similar gas rooms, they would heard the prisoners in these rooms telling them they were shower rooms.