#18- The Nazi Concentration Camps, Germany & Poland
I'm doing something a little different with this post. As you may have noticed, I've been mixing in humor in with our scariest places, but I'm feeling somber and will keep it serious for tonight's entry.
Haunted houses, haunted hospitals, prisons and bridges. They provide plenty of creeps and scares. Nothing however, can compare to the true horror of the concentration camps during WWII. This is a photo of Dachau, located in Upper Bavaria of Southern Germany. I visited this camp as a child. This was the very first of the camps opened and served as a model for the other camps that followed. Almost 32,000 people died while it was in operation from 1933 to it's liberation in April of 1945. Torture, beatings, overcrowding, disease, execution and cremation. You can't help but think the spirits of thousands of prisoners still haunt these death camps. There is not a sound as you walk the grounds and see the painful reminders of what happened. I found it interesting to learn that paranormal investigators and researchers have never entered out of respect for those who died there.
Those who do visit say they experience overwhelming sadness and fear. Pain, hate and suffering. Many burst into tears and are haunted themselves by the images they can never forget. There is no place on earth more full of sorrow than the concentration camps of Nazi Germany....
"When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror." - Adolf Hitler
He was right....they were...
*footnote*
A few years ago, I was able to visit the holocaust memorial museum in Washington, D.C. What an incredible and moving experience that was. This is dedicated to the more than 6 million people who died....
Those who do visit say they experience overwhelming sadness and fear. Pain, hate and suffering. Many burst into tears and are haunted themselves by the images they can never forget. There is no place on earth more full of sorrow than the concentration camps of Nazi Germany....
"When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror." - Adolf Hitler
He was right....they were...
*footnote*
A few years ago, I was able to visit the holocaust memorial museum in Washington, D.C. What an incredible and moving experience that was. This is dedicated to the more than 6 million people who died....
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