Dachau, Concentration Camp

About an hour outside Munich is Dachau Concentration Camp. We toured the camp for about 4 hours before heading on to Stuttgart.

"Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp (1933). While a relatively few 32,000 inmates died in Dachau between 1933 and 1945 (in comparison, more than 1,000,000 were killed in Auschwitz in Poland), the camp is notorious because the people who ran the entire concentration-camp system were trained here. It's safe to say that Hitler's mass killing originated at Dachau.

Few realize that that the camp actually housed people longer after the war then during the war. After liberation, numerous survivors who had nowhere else to go stayed. Until the 1960s, it was like a small town , with a cinema, shops and so on." - Rick Steve's Germany & Austria 2008

Something that stayed on my mind after leaving the camp, was the following words by Pastor Martin Neimoller. He supported the Nazis until he realized, too late, what they were really about and was sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was one of the fortunate to be freed and live until 1984.

First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Social Democrats, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Social Democrat.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew,

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.

For more information on Dachau Concentration Camp click here for the Wikipedia page and here for the official camp web site .

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This video is of two of the many memorials spread through out the camp.


Where the barracks used to be...