Dachau Consentration Camp
I have visited Dachau twice, the first time on a sister vacation to Germany and the second when my daughter and I visited Germany for her high school graduation trip. Memorial of the different badges that prisoners wore. Dachau was one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazis in 1933 as time went on not only Jews but also Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals and anyone else the Nazi party deemed inferior were brought to Dachau. After Kristallnacht in November 1938 the number of Jews increased considerably. In 1942 when the systematic extermination of Jews began many Jewish prisoners were transferred from Dachau to the mass extermination camps located in Poland. From the moment you arrive at Dachau concentration camp you feel a sense of sadness. On both trips we first walked to the area where the train would stop and prisoners would be unloaded and sorted, as you stand there you are filled with such a feeling of desperation, thinking how frig...