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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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This tree almost has a face.
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Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site "Dachau - the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory." - Eugen Kogon
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Map and description of the commemorative sites in the vicinity of the concentration camp.
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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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