Concentration Camp from WWII

We wanted to see Germany

So we rented a car and drove through the

Southern tip {Munich area}

Our main reason was to see the 2^nd largest

Concentration camp from WWII

DACHAU

{click here for history}

{in German this means "Work Sets You Free"

it was the gate to enter into Dachau}

We toured the actual concentration camp.

The registration building was turned into a museum

It had actual history,

Facts and stories of real happenings,

Explanations of torcherings

And even a short film that was

Filmed while it was actually happening.

It was crazy to see the actual people that were there

How skinny they were

How torchered they were.

the only was to describe it here was:

gut-wrenching,

heart breaking

and

unbelievable

I couldn’t believe something like this actually happened

I cant comprehend being treated this way.

Or treating people the way the SS did the prisoners.

We toured the museum first and then

Walked through the actual grounds.

walked through the barracks

where they had role call every morning/night

the crematorium

the monuments

the burial grounds for ashes

the shooting ranges,

everything that was there originally.

It was such an emotional experience.

It was humbling and peaceful

We are so lucky to live like we do.

I hope nothing like this ever happens again.

No matter who you are.

Their schedule for the days were:

4:00 am – wake up

5:15 am – role call

{they would stand in role call for hours,

or even days on end}

Role call was used for 2 reasons:

1-To account for the missing/dead

2- punishment

From role call until noon- work

12:00-1:00 lunch

{which sometimes was skipped}

1:00-7:00 pm – work

7:00 pm – dinner

7:00-9:00 pm – supposed break

{they were required to clean, polish the dishes, make their beds, etc}

if there was one tiny mistake or even just ONE single

water spot on their eating bowl, they were punished

9:00 – lights out

The prisoners punishments would make you cringe.

They would lay you on this:

And then beat you with whips

They would make the prisoner count out loud the

Number of blows (2 guards) and if they counted wrong

The guards started over.

Or another punishment was that the SS guards would

Hang the prisoners with their hands behind their back

For hours.

The guards would swing them and hit them repeatedly.

And then laugh about it.

here is some captions/pictures explaining it:

You had a mark of your status

On your uniform

And some people would be punished just for their status

Not for any other reason

The homosexuals were treated the worse

Even worse than the low-class jews.

They would also send prisoners to be used as

Guinea pigs for medical experiments

They would use them for LEARNING surgery techniques

{they used the healthiest prisoners}

or freeze them to death to see which organs shut off first

they would inject people with diseases

they would gas them to test their brain.

And it was always just random prisoners.

Dachau was originally designed for 6,000 prisoners.

By the end in 1945,

There were 36,000 total.

6 times the amount of the total capacity.

And they were just crammed into barracks.

Diseases spread like wildfire.

Just according to statistics

{they gave a lower total due to giving up on tracking who died}

but the tracked number of deaths were

14,500.

That’s over half of the prisoners.

And that’s guessing low!

That’s only including the prisoners tracked at dachau

The murders {the SS guards would torcher the prisoners and

Claim they committed suicide}

This number didn’t include:

the death walks,

certain countries they didn’t care about,

the satellite concentration camps,

or the movements coming into or leaving dachau.

The gas chambers were built but not used

They didn’t need to kill the prisoners quickly with gas

They wanted to make them suffer

And treat them like slaves for work

Until they worked/ beat/starved the prisoners to death.

{below is the set up of the gas chambers}

{the #'s on the picture above are explained below}

I could tell you so many facts about the

horrendous acts that went on here.

I learned so much I didn’t know

{worse than I could ever imagine}

It breaks my heart.

For all of you who don’t think you have it good,

I hope this makes you feel SO blessed

There is always someone who has it worse than you.

 {this is ONE day's deaths}

 {very powerful statue of the "Death Marches"}

 {the nazi sign with sickly skinny jews}

 {how their bunks started}

 {bunks changed to fit more}

{how the bunks were near the end to fit as many as possible,

people would sleep on top of each other} 

 {their showers}

 {toilets}

 {Role call area}

{actual picture} 

 {where the barracks were- original foundation}

 {walkway from role call to barracks and crematorium}

 {actual picture}

 {monument built after the concentration camps were over}

{no escaping, there was a ditch, then barbwire over gravel, 

then a barbwire fence, then a river}

Guards would take a prisoners hat, throw it in the ditch and 

tell him to go get it, and shoot him

then claim that the prisoner committed suicide. 

{way to the creamatorium} 

 {where the dead bodies were stored before they were creamated}

 {the ovens, above you can see hooks where they would hang 

some of the prisoners}

{pile of bodies} 

 {statue - pile of bodies, so emotional}

{execution range with blood ditch} 

{grave of thousands unknown}

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