Dachau

This week we visited Munich, and while we were there we visited the work camp of Dachau. I learned many things from our tour. You know through the Holocaust and WWII stuff I was always wondering how did the people never know what was going on in these concentration camps or how could they be so naive. We learned about all the propaganda and trickery that the Nazis used to keep the people from knowing. All of that was really amazing, and also how the camp changed as the war progressed. It became even more and more awful. We would see pictures of huge piles of dead bodies. These pics almost seem unreal, because you absolutely cannot fathum a sight like that. I can't imagine what the US soldiers you first saw these sights when they were liberating the camp thought, because the average soldier didn't even know these things were going on. It was also hard to imagine all the different kinds of torture that went on inside these camps. The lack of humanity and things that the Nazis came up with make you think they were almost not human, because what sane human would even think a´nd come up with these ways to torture and kill other human beings. The scary thing is that they were human.