DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMORIAL SITE
We decide to visit Dachau before we leave the area. It was the first of the Nazi concentration camps, built in 1933, and where Jews, political prisoners, homosexuals and others deemed ‘undesirable’ by the Third Reich were imprisoned. More than 200,000 were sent here, with more than 43,000 dying at Dachau. The camp served as a model for all other concentration camps and as a ‘school of violence’ for the SS men who commanded it. Photographs and some of the torture tools are on display, as well as two of the thirty four barracks used to house the prisoners. Disturbing film footage is also shown in the theatre. We left there with a feeling of sadness, and wondering how such cruelty could be imposed on the 200,000 men and women sent there. We leave Munich area, heading back to our Romantic Road and towards Fussen and the Austrian border.
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