Dachau K-Z (Konzentrationslage)

These gravel filled rectangles are where the bunkers once stood for the prisoners.  They were rooms with bunkbeds built for 40 men, but they housed 400.

Memorial Stone at the entrance to the Crematorium.  It reads, "Krematorium:  Denket Daran Wie Wir Hier Starben."  That means, "Think about (or remember) how we died here."

One of the Christian churches now at the KZ.  There is also a "Church of Reconciliation," where lots of meetings are held for people of different faiths to talk about reconcilation obviously.

The concentration camp at Dachau 1933-1945 was the first one built.  All other camps were modeled after it.  Because it was the first camp, a majority of the prisoners were not Jewish, but rather political dissidents and even priests and pastors who opposed Hitler.  Later there were of course many Jews there.  However one never knew how many were there at any given time because the Jews were always being shipped around.  Most were sent to Auschwitz to the Gas Chambers.  Dachau also later built a Gas Chamber in the guise of a shower room.  For an unknown reason, the Gas Chamber at Dachau was never used.  People were cremated here instead.  The Crematorium and the unused Gas Chamber are still there today.  A big reason why some people did survive at Dachau is because they were performing forced labor for the armament industry.  That industry needed the labor, so it was in their interest that enough people were alive at Dachau to perform the work.  I didn't take a picture of the infamous "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" entrance gate, or the sculpture that looks like barbedwire but is really composed of human figures.  I visited Dachau two years ago and already have those photos somewhere.  I just took a few pictures so you can have an idea of what the memorial Dachau KZ looks like.

The Crematiorium.  Ribbons on the flowers say something to the effect of, "You will not be forgotten," or "We will not let what has happened here be forgotten." (in German)

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