Dachau Concentration Camp and other Dachau, Germany Things to Do Tips

I would not do justice to re-write everything that has been written about the Holocaust, and I hope to provide you with as many links to learn more about it on your own.

We visited the Concentration camp in Dachau with saddened hearts, having seen so much tragedy in our own country only 10 days earlier (Sept. 11th).

This site really is an amazing tribute, that is packed full of history, and photographs. I would recommend that you visit, as it is an important part of history that needs to be shared.

This site was operational from 1933 until liberated in 1945.

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Website: http://www.holocaust-history.org/dachau-gas-chambers/

Located in the Southeastern corner of the Dachau Concentration Camp was the Gas Chamber in which over 200,000 Jews were executed in a period of 12 years from 1933 until the camp was liberated in 1945.

It is truly amazing to think that the German Nazis could take people in groups of 50 at a time into an area and allow them to "shower" by removing all of their clothing, and then putting them in dark room similar to a gym shower. Instead of water turning on, poison gas would seep in killing everyone in the room. There would then be guards who would come in and move those dead bodies into the crematorium for cremation.

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Website: http://www.holocaust-history.org/dachau-gas-chambers/

During our trip to the Dachau Memorial, one of the most stirring moments came when you look upon the empty field where the makeshift homes were for all of these Jewish prisoners. At any one time, there could be up to 30,000 prisoners in the camp.

I knew what to expect from the gas chambers and the incinerators, but seeing the sheer number of tent moorings on the grounds was amazing. A city the size of my current hometown was the relative number of prisoners held at any one time.

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Website: http://www.holocaust-history.org/dachau-gas-chambers/

One thing that I learned when viewing this site dedicated to those who lost their life in the Holocaust was the fact that the bodies were not actually cremated, they were incinerated. A Crematorium is a location that burns one body at a time, and seperates each individual's remains. This was actually an incinerator, which burns multiple bodies at once, and mixes the remains.

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Website: http://www.holocaust-history.org/dachau-gas-chambers/

One of the most imposing structures throughout the memorial is the Guard Towers. Located on the perimeter of the facility, and still in their original state are the guard towers used to keep the prisoners within the walls of the prison. It was said that the guards had the ability to shoot any prisoner that so much as touched the inner set of barbed wire fence onsite.

For 12 years, these guard towers were the site of many gun shot deaths. Even to this day looking at them signifies how large this loss was to the world.

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Website: http://www.holocaust-history.org/dachau-gas-chambers/