"Millions of Cats"

Some may remember the story of the very old man and the very old woman . . .

We have a new version:
Once upon a time there was a very old man and a very old woman.
They lived in a nice clean house which had yellow tulips all around it.
But they couldn't be happy, because they didn't have anything to eat.


The very old man and the very old woman decided to plant a walnut tree in front of the house.
Before long they were saying,
"Nuts here, nuts there. Nuts and nutshells everywhere. Hundreds of nuts. Thousands of nuts. Millions and billions and trillions of nuts!"

The very old man and the very old woman exclaimed,
"We have never had a harvest like this before! We shall never go hungry again."

And they lived happily ever after.

Showing the Sights

The hosts and hostess with the "most-ess"! (We should also have a photo of Steffi and Dietmar here, because they contributed greatly in caring for our guests on Sunday!) First stop, Neresheim

Our guests John and Shari from Marion, Ohio

A day's outing to the concentration camp in Dachau

Train platform where the prisoners arrived

A memorial to depict the color patches prisoners had to wear to represent their "crimes" or reason for imprisonment

Ashes of the unknown concentration camp prisoner

For those of you who know German - the Dachau song

Memorial to the dead/warning to the living

Crematorium ovens

A second crematorium was added, including a gas chamber, but the gas chamber wasn't used for mass extermination (as in Auschwitz). Possible that individuals or groups might have been gassed, but Dachau was a "work" camp (with its own atrocities)

The ovens were used.

In a wooded park area there were places where different kinds of execution had taken place.

Main camp road - the barracks are no longer there, but their outlines are marked

Two reconstructed barracks give an idea of living conditions

A quick stop in Ulm

Saying good-bye to John and Shari!