[ShadowAce]

I visited Dachau in 1985. Even then it was bad. The atmosphere was pure evil. Before that visit I honestly did not believe that a place could be evil/haunted. That place changed my mind.

I had the opportunity to visit it again a few months later. I went somewhere else instead.

[Guenevere]

My husband visited there in the 70’s.......
...words cannot express

We’re planning to take our teenage granddaughter to DC.....we will go to the Holocaust Museum.....( I have been.....it is hard)

But thankfully my Granddaughter is the kindest, most compassionate with a keen interest in history and an understanding and maturity to appreciate this solemn learning experience.

[xp38]

Same here sort of. I did a trip to Israel and then a couple of months on a Eurailpass. I visited Yad Vashem the holocaust memorial/museum in Israel and that was enough for me so I passed on the opportunity to visit any of the camp sites in Europe after. The funny thing was after the visit I shared a taxi back to our tour group hotel and the driver was an Arab and he said to us it was all lies. Yeah it could happen again.

[FLT-bird]

I’ve been to Dachau. It was the most somber depressing place I’ve ever seen.

[JeanLM]

I visited twice in 1975. My uncle was one of the liberators and he took pictures. Scared me to nightmares when I was a kid. Affected his mental outlook for the rest of his life.

The terrible thing is the camp is on the flat land below the town of Dachau itself and close. The stacks of the ovens were at roughly the same hieght as the town walls so there was no way the residents didn’t know what was happening.

The list of recorded inmates of the camp was horrible too with lots of ordinary people besides the Jews who of course were in the majority.

I agree with you in that even before you enter you get a feeling of dread. It is truly a scary place...but you have to go.

[NormsRevenge]

My uncle had a stack of black and white photos of death camps that he showed me as a small kid. I remember the pictures of dead piled high, awful to view .

They were just some of the memories he and many others brought back after the war. He lived a long life and first worked hard at his own tire business and then as a farmer.

To this day, those images remain clear and the message sent, even clearer.. Never again.