This is a picture of the Munich train station. It is pretty impressive. We said goodbye to Dan and Annie and had the last day to ourselves. We decided to go see the
Dachau concentration camp.
I was surprised at how many concentration camps there were throughout Europe. Each main camp had satellite work camps, as show in the picture. Some camps were only men, and other only women. Dachau was a men's only camp. I am not going to show all the pictures we took due to the graphic nature of some of the pictures and for respect for the dead.
This is a map that shows the incoming population of the camp per year. It also shows what country all the prisoners came from during its operation.
They had a patch system to identify why the person was a prisoner in the camp. I don't remember all the classifications but some were Jewish, homosexual, gypsy, political prisoner, and so on.
They rebuilt one barrack as an example of what used to stand. They demolished all the others and left the spots open as a memorial to those who died in the camp. Each barrack was built for around 75 people but at the height of the population of the camp, there were as many as 300 people in a barrack. This is a picture of the beds in the barracks.
This is a picture of the foundation where the old barracks used to stand.
Another picture of the barracks and the single shelf they had to put there things on.
The gate to the camp. It reads "Freedom through Work." It started out that way at the beginning of the war. Political prisoners came here for re-education. Once they had served their time they were allowed to go. That changed as the persecution of the Jews became the main reason for the concentration camps.
This is a picture of the Munich train station. It is pretty impressive. We said goodbye to Dan and Annie and had the last day to ourselves. We decided to go see the Dachau concentration camp. 
I was surprised at how many concentration camps there were throughout Europe. Each main camp had satellite work camps, as show in the picture. Some camps were only men, and other only women. Dachau was a men's only camp. I am not going to show all the pictures we took due to the graphic nature of some of the pictures and for respect for the dead.
This is a map that shows the incoming population of the camp per year. It also shows what country all the prisoners came from during its operation. 
They had a patch system to identify why the person was a prisoner in the camp. I don't remember all the classifications but some were Jewish, homosexual, gypsy, political prisoner, and so on.
They rebuilt one barrack as an example of what used to stand. They demolished all the others and left the spots open as a memorial to those who died in the camp. Each barrack was built for around 75 people but at the height of the population of the camp, there were as many as 300 people in a barrack. This is a picture of the beds in the barracks.
This is a picture of the foundation where the old barracks used to stand.
Another picture of the barracks and the single shelf they had to put there things on.
The gate to the camp. It reads "Freedom through Work." It started out that way at the beginning of the war. Political prisoners came here for re-education. Once they had served their time they were allowed to go. That changed as the persecution of the Jews became the main reason for the concentration camps.
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