Summertime Travels - Part 2

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June 1st 2008

Published: June 2nd 2008

Leg 2 - Germany! We were originally just going to go to Munich, but after prices shot up for airfare from Stockholm to Munich, we added Berlin (a cheaper flight plus a night train to Munich was still less than the cost of Stockholm-Munich) into the mix. I'm really glad we did because it was such an interesting and historically rich town. Our challenge was to see how much of Berlin we could see i... Read Full Entry

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(Bike?) Tour

Another crazy way to take a tour of Berlin. It seats 4 people and you all pedal at the same time to power this... thing.

Another Picnic in the Park!

1 euro pizza in Berlin = Not bad at all.

The Reichstag

This governmental building was burned down during WWII and this incident is what gave the Nazi's an opening to pass a law allowing them to take prisoner any enemy of the State without question...

Photo Shoot at the Reichstag

Killing time before our night train...

Photo Shoot at the Reichstag

Photo Shoot, cont.

Train Station in Berlin

McDonald's

Yep, even the McDonald's in Berlin are modernized.

Entrance to Dachau Concentration Camp

The prisoners part of the camp is actually only a very small portion of it, maybe 1/5 of the total size. The rest was the military grounds and bunkers that are still used today and are closed to the public.

"Work will make you Free"

Roll Call Area

Memorial

Recreation of the barracks

Originally, each building housed 50 prisoners. By the end of the war, there were 200 prisoners in each barrack.

Entrance to the fumigation cubicles

Clothing was sterilized here. Nearby is the crematorium and the gas chambers. The gas chambers were actually never used, and in fact, neo-nazi groups today claim that it was the Americans who built the chamber after the camp was liberated in order to further incriminate the Nazis. But it doesn't make sense that Americans would need to do this... the camp is incriminating enough.