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Germany 2010

Germany vacation April 1st through 23rd 2010. The trip was extended by the icelandic volcano by a few days. We went to Oldenburg, Bad Zwischenahn, Hamburg, Laboe, Kiel, Lübeck, Munich, Walsrode, Bremerhaven and Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Aquarium (37) Bad Zwischenahn (41) Botanical Garden (55) Bremerhaven (240) Concentration Camp (108) Dachau (149) Easter (37) Erica (17) Flowers (75) Germany (2943) Göttingen (169) Groningen (165) Hamburg (649) Hunte (59) Kiel (35) Laboe (230) Lewin (1) Lübeck (343) Martinikerk (75) Miniature Wonderland (269) Munich (335) Nova (1) Oldenburg (123) Oma's Anniversary (2) Rabea (4) Rita (4) Ruben (1) Smart (1) St. Nikolai (69) Submarines (322) Type VII (157) Type XXI (161) U 2540 (161) U 995 (157) Walsrode (767) Zoo (947)

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The Dachau Concentration Camp In March 1933, a concentration camp for political prisoners was established on this site. It served as a model for all subsequent concentration camps and was under the command of the SS. In the 12 years of its existence, over 200,000 persons from throughout Europe were incarcerated here and in the numerous subcamps. More than 43,000 died. On April 29, 1945, U.S. troops liberated the survivors. The former prisoner camp became a Memorial Site in 1965. Today's visitor path leads over the foundation of the Gestapo's political section. This office registered the prisoners, carried out interrogations - frequently using torture -, was responsible for imposing punishment, and recorded deaths in the camp.
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Arrival at the camp The road that formerly connected the SS area with the prisoner camp was uncovered in 2004. This road was how the prisoners reached the camp. Arriving prisoners had to march from the railway station to the camp, while other transports used trucks to bring the prisoners to Dachau. During the war trains transported the prisoners to the SS camp. The final months before the end of the war were characterized by a catastrophic overfilling of the camp, due to the SS deporting several thousand prisoners from other camps to Dachau on the "evacuation transports." Thousands died in the course of these final transports.
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The commandant headquarters The area of the commandant's headquarters in the SS concentration camp was located directly next to the prisoner camp. The commandant's headquarters was located at the center of this area. The commandant had almost unrestricted control over the camp. The headquarters staff and the guard units carried out his orders. Located behind the headquarters area was the considerably larger SS training camp, workshops, and residential and storage buildings. After the war, the U.S. Army used the grounds as an internment camp and later as a troop location. The Bavarian Police took over the area in 1972-1973. The workshops along the Würm canal were demolished in the 1990s. The building rubble was deposited on the embankment opened here.
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The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes free) was placed at the entrance of a number of Nazi concentration camps.
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"Arbeit macht frei" (work makes free) at the gate of the Dachau concentration camp.
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In honor of the 42nd Rainbow Division and other U.S. 7th Army liberators of Dachau Concentration Camp April 29, 1945 and in everlasting memory of the victims of Nazi barbarism, this tablet is dedicated May 3, 1992. Rainbow Division Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc.
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In honor of the 20th Armored Division (Liberators) U.S. 7th Army who participated in the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp April 29, 1945 and in everlasting memory of the victims of Nazi barbarism, this tablet is dedicated April 28, 1996. 20th Armored Division (Liberators) Veterans Memorial Committee
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Roll call ground The prisoners had to assemble on the roll call ground every morning and evening for roll call. In all weather conditions, they were forced to stand to attention motionless, for about an hour. Sometimes even the dead had to be dragged to the roll call ground to be counted. If the number of prisoners on roll call did not match the official head-count - for example after an attempted escape - this torture could last many hours. It often happened that sick and weak prisoners collapsed during roll call. The other prisoners were forbidden to help them. On the roll call ground the SS carried out punishments for all the prisoners to see. In the final months before the liberation, large transports of prisoners arrived in Dachau and were brought first to the roll call ground. Many sick and exhausted prisoners died here.
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Jourhaus The gatehouse and office building of the SS was built in 1936. Newly arriving prisoners were forced to pass through the gate with the inscription "Work brings freedom." The name given to the building goes back to the 24-hour duty performed by SS guards. From the sentry post on the ground floor their controlled access to the prisoner camp and operated the alarm system as well as the power supply for the electrified camp fence. Also located in the Jourhaus were the interrogation rooms of the Political Department / Gestapo and the offices of the block and report leaders. The offices of the preventive custody camp leaders, responsible for the running of the prisoner camp, were on the upper floor. Prisoners accused by the SS of violating the camp rules were interrogated here and sentenced to corporal punishment or torture. The prisoners therefore considered the Jourhaus to be the center of SS rule over the camp.
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