Day 4 of our Christmas Market Tour - Our Local Specialist will provide insight into Germany’s first concentration camp, opened immediately after Hitler’s rise to power, just outside Dachau. We'll learn about the camp, now maintained as a me
A sobering and humbling experience. Dachau is not an easy place to visit but it is an important one. Walking through the stark, haunting grounds of the camp brings you face to face with the reality of what happened there. Prisoners stripped of all humanity, forced into slave labor, tortured, experimented on and murdered.
Lots of railways on the way to the camp.
“motto emblazoned on the gates, “Arbeit Macht Frei” means Work Gives You Freedom.”
Barrack's
lockers
Sleeping quarters
Protestant Memorial
We are now making our way back to where the
Bathroom and shower
After walking around the barracks we took a walk through the row of trees to see the memorials for former concentration camps which include separate Jewish, Catholic, and a Protestant memorial hall
Jewish Memorial
Catholic Memorial
the crematorium
area was constructed next to the main camp. It included the old crematorium and the new crematorium (Barrack X) with a gas chamber. 
Crematorium X
Old Crematorium
Memorial walks around the crematorium grounds.
Memorial
Prisoners lived in constant fear of brutal treatment and terror detention including standing cells, floggings, the so-called tree or pole hanging, and standing at attention for extremely long periods. There were 32000 documented deaths at the camp, and thousands are undocumented Approximately 10,000 of the 30,000 prisoners were sick at the time of liberation.
A strappado is a form of torture in which the victim's hands are tied behind his back and the victim is suspended by a rope attached to the wrists, typically resulting in dislocated shoulders. Weights may be added to the body to intensify the effect and increase the pain. This kind of torture would generally not last more than an hour without rest,
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