In the reconstruction you don’t get the crowding of all the poor souls squeezed together, emaciated and lice ridden. I haven’t been to Dachau but I did visit Auschwitz a few years ago, a sad place where even the birds don’t sing…hopefully in remembering the horrors of the past, we won’t allow this to happen again.
So true. I am not sure I could have handled the original. Too much sorrow. Dachau was billed as a political prisoner camp until later in the war rather than extermination camp. Still, you could feel the ghosts.
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In the reconstruction you don’t get the crowding of all the poor souls squeezed together, emaciated and lice ridden. I haven’t been to Dachau but I did visit Auschwitz a few years ago, a sad place where even the birds don’t sing…hopefully in remembering the horrors of the past, we won’t allow this to happen again.
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So true. I am not sure I could have handled the original. Too much sorrow. Dachau was billed as a political prisoner camp until later in the war rather than extermination camp. Still, you could feel the ghosts.
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Talk about a photo worth a 1,000 words and even more memories.
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wow – it looks so interesting with the bareness –
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The barracks are reconstructions. I don’t know if I could have gone in if they were the original.
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yes, same here- I would not have wanted to been in the original –
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