Garand Picture of the day #116 Dachau Concentration Camp

[Danny]

Let's hope that our nation never forgets what can happen when the world looks the other way during the reign of tyrants. Europe certainly seems to have a very selective memory of the events 65 years ago.

I've been to Bergen Belsen as well but don't have scanned images of that. Unfortunately, there is not much left of that as was the case with Dachau. There is not much left at Dachau either, but there is still something, such as the Admin Building, the crematorium, the gates, the drainage ditches and the guard towers. The housing buildings (two or so of them) have been reconstructed post war. You might remember Bergen Belsen as being the place where Anne Frank perished. The British burned that place to the ground at the end of the war due to the rampant disease found in the camp. All that can be found there today are burial sites and a modern museum, and possibly some memorials, but I'm fuzzy on that one. You can walk through the property of the camp and now and then you'll see an artifact from the war such as a remnant of a prisoner's boot sole and part of the boot, etc. It's a very humbling experience to see these things.

Danny