Dachau Germany

I have put this blog seperately from the rest of the Austrian trip because it was so different.  It was an amazing day and the day has left an impact on me that will never go away.  It was so important for us to visit this place to pay our respects and so that we can learn what should never be allowed to happen again.

Thursday 4^th August

Up nice and early to give my presentation for my interview.  After a couple of minutes getting connected, away I went. I was feeling very nervous because I really want this job.  It means a lot to me.  After the hour long discussion the interview was over so Rod and I decided to head to Germany and visit Dachau. 



One of the detention centres



An aerial view of some of the buildings that housed the prisoners



Some of the prisoners



It was raining in Austria so off we went.  It was about an hour and a half drive and by the time we got there we have put the rain behind us and it was a bright sunny day again.  We arrived at Dachau and found the concentration campsite easily.  It was free entry and so off we went not sure what to expect.  It was a very solemn and sobering place to visit.  The enormity of the events that took place there and walking through the buildings and rooms where people were kept, tortured and killed was hard to comprehend.  We went to one area and saw the foundations of the buildings and there was just row upon row upon row of long low buildings that housed over 36,000 people. Many of the buildings were allocated to certain scientists to 

There was a whole train with wagons full of bodies found.

 conduct their experiments such as the typhus ward and the ward where they gave men hypothermia and tested how long before they died.  Such atrocities you can hardly imagine one human being doing such things to another.  It was a very quiet drive home as each of us tried to assimilate what we saw.  I felt very strongly that we needed to see Dachau so that the memory of what happened never dies and never gets the opportunity to happen again.  It is hard to talk about what we saw and learned there and it will never leave me.