Today we saw Dachau concentration camp in a cold rain. The weather seemed appropriate for the subject matter.
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| "Work will set you free." |
We had a very good guide, a retired German history professor. He explained to us that all German schoolchildren are required to visit a concentration camp as part of their education in the hopes that the atrocities committed by the Nazis will not be repeated.
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| The kitchen and cells for priests were in this building. |
Dachau was not an extermination camp, but a work camp where political and religious dissidents were held. Catholic priests who spoke out against the Nazi campaign to exterminate disabled people were imprisoned here. Over 40,000 people died at Dachau from disease, torture, malnutrition, etc. The is a gas chamber at Dachau, but it was not used for mass executions. No one knows why.
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| Bunks |
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| Plaque marking mass graves. |
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| Plaque honoring American soldiers who liberated prisoners at Dachau. |
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