Dachau was very humbling. Our tour guide was very good. She gave the site respect and gave us tons of information not only about Dachau but also other concentration camps. It was interesting when she was explaining how she has to explain things differently to other nationalities, I never thought of that how there would be such a language barrier trying to communicate in a language that both parties don't even use as a first language.
What really hit me the hardest was the gas chambers and crematorium. I can not imaging what that seen would have looked like when they were in use. It is terrible enough that they were even made but the prisoners themselves had to make the structures. Just walking though the building was very over whelming.
I am glad we went to Dachau and saw first had what a concentration camp looked like and how they worked, but I can not say I would ever visit another one.
That tour guide was really good! I really wish though that she would've told us her credentials in the beginning of the tour, rather than the end, simply because during the tour I just thought she was like a professor or something, but really she was a lawyer! Which I thought was even cooler!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the perspective ourban tour guide gavemail. She was like Paul from the Maritime museum in Amsterdam, the history of your people is not always pretty but it still happened and we need to be educated about it.also the reasonships why she was a tour guide was really cool too.
ReplyDeleteIt hadn't crossed my mind before and I was surprised when our tour guide said the prisoners built the crematorium themselves. I can't even imagine building a structure knowing that you have to do this work, but also that building it meant that the Nazis were planning on killing so many more people and that the prisoners building the crematorium may end up in it one day.
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