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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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The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" (work makes free) was placed at the entrance of a number of Nazi concentration camps.
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"Arbeit macht frei" (work makes free) at the gate of the Dachau concentration camp.
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In honor of the 42nd Rainbow Division and other U.S. 7th Army liberators of Dachau Concentration Camp April 29, 1945 and in everlasting memory of the victims of Nazi barbarism, this tablet is dedicated May 3, 1992. Rainbow Division Veterans Memorial Foundation Inc.
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In honor of the 20th Armored Division (Liberators) U.S. 7th Army who participated in the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp April 29, 1945 and in everlasting memory of the victims of Nazi barbarism, this tablet is dedicated April 28, 1996. 20th Armored Division (Liberators) Veterans Memorial Committee
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Roll call ground The prisoners had to assemble on the roll call ground every morning and evening for roll call. In all weather conditions, they were forced to stand to attention motionless, for about an hour. Sometimes even the dead had to be dragged to the roll call ground to be counted. If the number of prisoners on roll call did not match the official head-count - for example after an attempted escape - this torture could last many hours. It often happened that sick and weak prisoners collapsed during roll call. The other prisoners were forbidden to help them. On the roll call ground the SS carried out punishments for all the prisoners to see. In the final months before the liberation, large transports of prisoners arrived in Dachau and were brought first to the roll call ground. Many sick and exhausted prisoners died here.
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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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