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Germany 2010

Germany vacation April 1st through 23rd 2010. The trip was extended by the icelandic volcano by a few days. We went to Oldenburg, Bad Zwischenahn, Hamburg, Laboe, Kiel, Lübeck, Munich, Walsrode, Bremerhaven and Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Aquarium (37) Bad Zwischenahn (41) Botanical Garden (55) Bremerhaven (240) Concentration Camp (108) Dachau (149) Easter (37) Erica (17) Flowers (75) Germany (2943) Göttingen (169) Groningen (165) Hamburg (649) Hunte (59) Kiel (35) Laboe (230) Lewin (1) Lübeck (343) Martinikerk (75) Miniature Wonderland (269) Munich (335) Nova (1) Oldenburg (123) Oma's Anniversary (2) Rabea (4) Rita (4) Ruben (1) Smart (1) St. Nikolai (69) Submarines (322) Type VII (157) Type XXI (161) U 2540 (161) U 995 (157) Walsrode (767) Zoo (947)

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Jourhaus The gatehouse and office building of the SS was built in 1936. Newly arriving prisoners were forced to pass through the gate with the inscription "Work brings freedom." The name given to the building goes back to the 24-hour duty performed by SS guards. From the sentry post on the ground floor their controlled access to the prisoner camp and operated the alarm system as well as the power supply for the electrified camp fence. Also located in the Jourhaus were the interrogation rooms of the Political Department / Gestapo and the offices of the block and report leaders. The offices of the preventive custody camp leaders, responsible for the running of the prisoner camp, were on the upper floor. Prisoners accused by the SS of violating the camp rules were interrogated here and sentenced to corporal punishment or torture. The prisoners therefore considered the Jourhaus to be the center of SS rule over the camp.
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Maintenance Building The maintenance building was built by the prisoners themselves in 1937-38. It served the needs of the prisoners camp and contained a kitchen, clothing supply room, baths, laundry and workshops. In the so-called Schubraum (literally "shunting room") in the west wing of the building, the degrading registration process began for the newly arrived prisoners. On the roof of the building a text was painted in large letters: "There is a path to freedom. Its milestones are: Obedience, Honesty, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Hard Work, Discipline, Sacrifice, Trhuthfulness, Love of thy Fatherland."
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May the example of those who were exterminated here between 1933 - 1945 because they resisted Nazism help to unite the living for the defence of peace and freedom and in respect for their fellow men.
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1933 - 1945.
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Never again.
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