well, I did battle with the not so user friendly munich transit system and managed to get myself to Dachau while Diana was at the conference.
Dachau is now just a few buildings and a museum with horrific photos and even more horrific stories along with them. similar to yad vashem in that regard. Very depressing. Saw the barracks where people were crammed like sardines, the gas chamber, and fhe crematorium ovens. I will post some photos later.
Dachau was the first concentration camp, and the prototype for all the rest. It was a concentration camp for undesirables, but not an extermination camp, per se, as was Auschwitz. People died from disease and malnutrition mostly, with some hung or gassed. It was mostly a slave labor camp. Most survivors said a quick death would have been better.
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