Dachau Concentration Camp

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We knew we couldn’t leave Europe without visiting some important historical site relating to World War II. It was quite a sobering experience to visit the Dachau Concentration Camp just to the west of Munich. It was disturbing to be at a place where so many people were forced into slavery essential and tens of thousands were murdered. The camp was overpopulated throughout WWII leading to especially bad living conditions for the prisoners. It was terrible to read about the science experiments conducted on prisoners, the 70×70 cm prison cells which forced a prisoner to stand for days at a time and see the gas chambers disguised as showers. It was a very sobering place to visit but good to see that camps like these are now free Memorials visited by millions annually which serve to educate current and future generations about the atrocities of the Holocaust.

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