Going to visit concentration camp Dachau

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👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 16, 2012

Going to visit Dachau November 4th.
Chose this camp because it seems to be really impressive.
Looking forward to it, but I'm sure it's going to be a very quiet 7 hr drive back home.

Anybody here visited Dachau or another camp?
🚲🍊Far Side🍊🚲 Oct 16, 2012

Yes. Very disturbing to look at the exhibits and realize what they represent happened all around where you're standing. It's a bit surreal. Every time you see a reference to the camps, you'll flash back to actually being in one. For solemnity, it's on par with looking at the fields of crosses at Normandy.
👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 16, 2012

Yeah, have been in Normandie too. Unbelievable all the craters there. Hard to imagine what happened there.
Also visited a lot of places in the Belgian Ardennes since its close to where I live. Was in all places mentioned in Band of Brothers 😊
But I'm sure Dachau is going to be the most impressive of all.
ИЕШ☠ВГЕЕD Oct 17, 2012

Impressive? What do you mean by that?
And visiting concentration camps is a very moving experience.
IG-100 Oct 17, 2012

I just read the word "Belgian" and immeadiatly thought of waffles
👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 17, 2012

ИЕШ☠ВГЕЕD wrote:
Impressive? What do you mean by that?
And visiting concentration camps is a very moving experience.

Isnt that what you say? Guess moving is the correct word then. Sorry, not native English here.
🐕Travdog70🐕 Oct 17, 2012

Lay a rose for me🌹
jake rock Oct 17, 2012

Ƭⅈʛℰℜ wrote:
I just read the word "Belgian" and immeadiatly thought of waffles

Mmmmmm!!!! Sooooo goooood.....👌 Want some now😡
🔥ℐօƙℰℜ🔥 Oct 17, 2012

I have been on the U.S.S Arizona memorial. It's a moving moment being on a spot where over 1000 of your countrymen died in less than a second.
₩ᎥℕᎧ Oct 17, 2012

I visited the Holocaust Museum in D.C. it was heartbreaking. You read and watch movies on what happened but to see it is different. As in seeing the actual pictures, actually footage etc. There is no words and the experience will forever stay with me.
🔥ℐօƙℰℜ🔥 Oct 17, 2012

JCM88 wrote:
I visited the Holocaust Museum in D.C. it was heartbreaking. You read and watch movies on what happened but to see it is different. As in seeing the actual pictures, actually footage etc. There is no words and the experience will forever stay with me.

Saw the one in London. Horrible
₩ᎥℕᎧ Oct 17, 2012

🔥ℐօƙℰℜ🔥 wrote:
JCM88 wrote:
I visited the Holocaust Museum in D.C. it was heartbreaking. You read and watch movies on what happened but to see it is different. As in seeing the actual pictures, actually footage etc. There is no words and the experience will forever stay with me.

Saw the one in London. Horrible
It really takes you back. It's something that shouldn't be forgotten. The great depths that some will take is appalling and very much real.
👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 17, 2012

travdog70 wrote:
Lay a rose for me🌹

Good idea Travdog. Will do that.
👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 17, 2012

In Margraten - Netherlands, 15 min drive from where I live is a US WWII cemetary and memorial. 8300 US soldiers are buried there. Really makes you feel humble seeing all those 8300 white crosses and 1750 names of the soldiers who's bidies were never found on the monument.
👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 17, 2012

JCM88 wrote: It really takes you back. It's something that shouldn't be forgotten. The great depths that some will take is appalling and very much real.
Exactly the reason why I think everybody should have the experience of seeing and realizing the horror that went on. This can never ever happen again.
Marilyn Oct 17, 2012

I, along side some friends are planning a trip to Auschwitz in Poland.
I live 2 hours away from Bergen Belsen.
But it small compared to Auschwitz and was flattened by the ally's after the war.

History amazes me allot.

Literally a 10 minute drive from my house is where Herman Göring used to operate his air force (Luftwaffe).
🏃💨fartex💩 Oct 17, 2012

Im from belgium, and as a 12-14 year old, my mom took me to "het fort van breemdonk" now, compared to auswich, bergen belsen, treblinka,Dachau,sobibor, this might seem to be like a minor camp. But trust me, i will never forget the experience i went trough when i was there.
2 weeks later, my mom gave me a book called "het boek der kampen" books of camps, wich is written by an actual survivor of the holocaust.
When i think back about certain stories in that book, i still get disgusted. People are animals...
And ronster, prepare to see and experience things that will horrify you mate.
Im sure you will never forget what you will see and feel there.
👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 17, 2012

Auschwitz will probably next, but thats a bit too far by car.

People are animals. True. You see it happening right now in Syria again 😞

And sure I'll be horrified. I'm certain my gf will walk around crying and I'm not sure my eyes stay dry tbh...

My son is now 3 and not joining us on the trip. But when he's old enough I want to show him these things too.
〓Տɧɑƌøա₭ɪɲɠ〓 Oct 17, 2012

Being the great-grandson of a German Jew, I've lost a lot of family in the camps. Some of them were executed in Dachau. Can you leave a rose for my family that died by the hands of the nazis?
4nick8r Oct 17, 2012

The Far Side wrote:
Yes. Very disturbing to look at the exhibits and realize what they represent happened all around where you're standing. It's a bit surreal. Every time you see a reference to the camps, you'll flash back to actually being in one. For solemnity, it's on par with looking at the fields of crosses at Normandy.

I've been to both & I couldn't say it any better. The only thing that has compared state side was visiting the Vietnam wall with my step dad & watching him find the names of his friends from his time over there.
👻⋆℟ꇎῃઙϮƎя⋆👻 Oct 17, 2012

“⚡Տɧɑƌøա₭ɪɲɠ⚡ wrote:
Being the great-grandson of a German Jew, I've lost a lot of family in the camps. Some of them were executed in Dachau. Can you leave a rose for my family that died by the hands of the nazis?

Sorry to hear that SK... 😔
I will leave a rose for you too.