Dachau

After stopping in Nuremberg for lunch, we drove on towards Munich. On the way, we stopped in Dachau, which is a quaint town that also houses the famous Nazi concentration camp that was built in 1935 to send political prisoners to and later included people of whose only crime was being a gypsy, a Jew or gay. The town is very close to the camp, which surprised me and saddened me. That meant the average German had to have some inkling of what was happening. I only included several pictures from the trip there because I don't feel the pictures do justice to the horrors that occurred there; the torture of prisoners, the burning of their bodies... And it was a bright, warm, sunny day when we were there, making it a stark contrast to what happened there in the 30's and 40's. But the saddest thing of all, is the "Never Again" sign is not accurate. Genocide continues in the world today.