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By Seeking Nirvana
January 25th 2008

The Holocaust

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Gate entering into Dachau
states "Arbeit Macht Frei" or "Work Will Set You Free."

Warning: This blog is depressing. We did the trip to Dachau on December 25th, and the trip to Prague 5 days later. Throughout our travels in Europe, we have taken time to visit reminders of human-kinds occasionally destructive nature. In the Netherlands, we visited the Anne Frank House, and witnessed the fear, the intimidation, and the spying that infected every day life of those people living under the Nazi regime. In the Munich suburb of Dacchau, we toured the Dacchau Concentration Camp. In Prague, we witnessed the destruction that continues today due to the Holocaust. It should b [View Full Entry]

By Rades
October 18th 2007

Oktoberfest and Dachau

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on the train to munich
this was how beautiful lisa and i looked after 4 hours of sleep and getting up at 5:30AM to catch the metro and train to Munich

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Yeah!!!!! I have been waiting so long for this trip!!!!! Up at 5:30am, Lisa and I catch the metro at 6am and are on our way to the train station. Our train leaves at 7:24am for Munich, with a quick stopover in Stuggart. Once we arrive in Germany, we jump on a tram and head to the Tent, which will be our home for the week. The weather is beautiful and also quite hot as we wait in line to check in. The Tent is a huge campground with two big tents that hold one hundred people, [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
October 16th 2007

Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial

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What's left of the railroad tracks
This is what's left of the railroad tracks that used to bring the prisoners to the camp.

About 30 minutes outside of Munich, on my way home, was Dachau Concentration Camp so I decided to stop and visit. Parking was 3 Euros and entrance to the memorial site was free. I got there right as they were opening at 9am and was the first one there so it was quiet and pretty cold out since it was still early. Many of the buildings were torn down after the concentration camp was closed but they left several up, such as 2 barracks buildings where the prisoners were housed, the bunker, where the special prisoners were kept and where everyone [View Full Entry]

By stsa0501
October 15th 2007

Munich III and Dachau

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Jon Bon Jovi
Stephen, at the Munich Olympic Walk of Stars. We were pretty excited to see Jon Bon Jovi, because Stephen strikes a bearing resemblance to Jon. (He thinks he looks more like him when he has long hair,... [more]

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By Roaming Bulldog
October 8th 2007

Gloomy By All Accounts

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Somber Start
The camp in an international historic site.

Gutten tag! While planning my trip to Germany, I made a conscious decision to see relics of the country’s dark past along with its vibrant culture of today. In Berlin I visited the wall that divided the city physically and the world symbolically, in Nuremburg I visited the site that was the epicenter of Nazi power, and in Munich I walked around the area were extremists took hostage innocent civilians. Even though I had reservations about going to a concentration camp, I decided it would have been irresponsible not to. Just because I knew the day at a camp would be [View Full Entry]

By Jessica and Thaddeus
September 14th 2007

Dachau - Friday 9/14

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Front Gate "Work will set you free"

Dachau is the first of all the concentration camps, all of the others were modeled after it. Not really much to say about this, as going speaks for itself and the pictures I'm uploading don't do it justice... All Pictures taken in Dachau Concentration Camp [View Full Entry]

By Preeti Sam
August 29th 2007

Dachau concetration camp

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Arbeit macht frei
This is the inscription on the front gate of Dachau. All camp prisinors passed through this gate and read the inscription. Translation: "work brings freedom" or "work shall set you free"

Germany's first concentration camp was opened at Dachau, a village a few miles from Munich. I've taken a few pictures, but the links do a much better job of conveying the camp than I would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/englisch/content/ [View Full Entry]

By Molly Anne
August 7th 2007

Germany

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Day 6 Today we visited the concentration camp, Dachau. It was a very emotional experience. You learn about all of the horrors of the Holocaust, and listening to the stories and learning about it is horrible enough. Seeing the place where it happened and actually being there was very difficult to handle. I didn't take any pictures because it was too emotional and it didn't feel right to take pictures of the place where people were being cruelly tortured in unimaginable ways. People were starved to death, dying of disease, worked until they collapse, piled alive with dead bodies and bake [View Full Entry]

By nater
June 21st 2007

Munich 3

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RECOVERED

Woke at 10 am beacause we had to check out and felt really terrible. Even though I had not drank much the night before, I will still really hung over and tired. Aaron and everyone else seemed similar but a bit better. We stored our luggage away at the hostel and hopped on a short city s-train to Dachau. The weather was cold and rainy which added a bit to the gloomy aspect of dachau and made me feel worse at the same time. We walked through the musuem first and saw a video which was quite shocking and disturbing [View Full Entry]

By Heather Frost
March 4th 2007

munich again

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work makes free
the famous quote on the gate into the camp, I can't believe I actually saw it.

Hello my stateside friends! Seems like it's been awhile since I updated, but not too much has been happening around Baumholder. I've been working a lot. Thankfully staying in my preschool classroom, but things have been crazy since they stole one of our excellent staff members to put in the other preschool room. So it's been the lead teacher and I, and that is just not enough staff to last a full day in preschool! Needless to say it's been stressful for the staff and the kids, and they have been showing it by being crazy! They have also started to [View Full Entry]

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