Dachau

There aren't words that can describe the eerie feeling you get when you walk in the gates of Dachau. Hearing the stories growing up you really don't realize what a large scale everything was on, but everything was put into perspective Friday. The hardest part personally was seeing the crematorium. The guide told us that the prisoners building the second crematorium realized what they were building during the process. They recognized the gas chambers being put in and knew that only meant mass murder. To try and stop these from getting used, they built the structure as slow as they possibly could to try to delay the horror. Seeing humanity shine through, no matter how much the Nazis wanted to dehumanize them, was truly touching.