Court and I arrived in Munich yesterday and spent most of our time at the NS Dokuzentrum which thoroughly documented the rise of the Nazi power and Munich being the party's headquarters. The museum had a lot of information and was very well done, and while we learned a lot in the three and a half hours we were there we easily could have spent more time there.
After the museum we walked through Munich's Christmas Market and called it a day.
This morning Courtnie and I rented a vehicle and drove to Dachau to tour the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. Dachau was the first German concentration camp and most camps that followed, followed the framework of the "Dachau Model." The memorial was harrowing, chilling and important.
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| Some of the Nuremberg Laws printed on the wall of the NS Museum |
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| Marienplatz, Munich where the market was |
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| Case had been here once before in high school for a school trip. |
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| Main gate into the Dachau Concentration Camp |
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| The roll call area |
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| "Smoking forbidden" was uncovered after layers of paint were stripped off to reveal the original in the main building of the camp. |
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| The last name Schreiber, Courtnie's mom's maiden name, on an armband of a prisoner in the camp who was the camp clerk. It translates into English as "stock writer". |
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| The prisoner baths; the last station of the admission process, where heads were shaved and they were given prisoner clothing before being sent to the barracks. Horrible torment and torture was endured here as well. |
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| A model of the Concentration Camp |
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| The original door of the main gate. It was stolen and only recently returned in 2014. They still do not know who took it or returned it. |
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| The list of Schreibers who were at Dachau Concentration Camp, where they were from, occupations, birth dates and places, and date of death and place. |
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| The bunks. Multiple people were crammed into each section. The camp was originally built to hold 6000 prisoners. Over 12 years, more than 206 000 people were kept here. 31 951 of them were murdered here. |
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| The foundations of the former barracks. |
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| The barracks then. |
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| The Mortal Agony of Christ Chapel |
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| The Jewish Memorial |
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| Inside the Protestant Church of Reconciliation |
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