July 21st was a very emotional roller coaster of a day. The plan for today was mostly to travel between Besancon, France and Paris, France - but we added a very import detour months ago which included a visit to the Natzwiller-Struhof Concentration Camp. We will let many of the pictures speak for themselves; however, what we learned today will surely stick with us forever. No matter what you have heard or imagined about a concentration camp, seeing it in person is simply unspeakably horrible. The torture and treatment of these human beings - be it Jewish, Allied soldiers or even German convicts - was beyond despicable. At this particular Camp, they had rooms that were used to 'experiment' on prisoners. There is a ravine that runs alongside the Camp that was called the Death Ravine,
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