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!
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