We've decide to add a few more of our photos on the Dachau Concentration Camp as it is probably of interest to many people who would like to see a bit more on this notorious place. I must say that when going around the camp it does not quite portray the horrors that had taken place here and one gets the feeling of a rather sterile environment.
If someone really wants to get a beter understanding of what actually happened here, there is an excellent book available at the camp bookshop called "That was Dachau", written by Stanislav Zamecnik who was himself an inmate of the camp for a number of years. The publishers seem to be "Le Cherche Midi". If you can get hold of this book its really worth reading!
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The camp is visited by many tourists each year. Just outside the camp is the car park where we found many tourist buses. |
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Some information about the camp just outside the entrance. |
The entrance to the camp. |
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The "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" phrase that one finds at the entrance to all the concentration camps. |
To the left on entering the camp, one sees one of the rows of rebuilt prisoner barracks. |
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On entering the camp immediately in front of one is the huge "Roll-Call" area. |
To the left of the entrance further down one can see one of the guard towers. |
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Throughout the camp one finds boards with photos and explanations on them of the particular area of interest. |
To the right of the entrance one finds the administration area and service building, behind which lies the notorious "Bunker". This was the camp prison in which prisoners were tortured and murdered. |
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Inside the service building one finds the bookshop and various exhibits. There is also a cinema where visitors may view a short film with extracts taken during the camps operation. |
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Inside one of the prisoner barracks with the bunk beds for the prisinors. |
The prisoner's lockers where they could store their personal belongings. |
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The wash facilities. |
Ablutions. |
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The camp road either side of which stood the prisoner barracks. |
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Today only the foundations of the barracks are still visible. The front row of barracks are replicas of the original ones. |
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The memorial to the Jewish prisoners. |
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One of the electrified barbed wire fences with trench and guard tower in the background. |
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At the rear left of the camp a road leads to the crematorium. |
The later crematorium building which was built when the first one became to small. The first one is just opposite. |
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Inside the first crematorium. |
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The site of the gallows where many prisoners were murdered. |
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Layout of the new crematorium. |
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The waiting room before being sent to the gas chamber which was disguised as a shower room. |
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Entrance to the gas chamber. |
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Inside the gas chamber. Notice the fake shower heads in the roof. |
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The Death Chamber where the bodies of those that had just been killed in the gas chamber were taken before being incinerated in the crematorium next door. |
The new crematorium ovens. |
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Another view of the huge "Roll-Call" area. |
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