I decided to visit Dachau on the very last day in Munich, before I travel to Zurich. The first concentration camp was built in Dachau. It is also the only camp running from the beginning to the end of Nazi’s ruling. It’s a hunting experience to visit it. There were more than 30,000 people died there. When I walked through the roll-call square, maintenance building, bunker, barracks, and the crematorium, I wonder how people could be so evil to plan for a mass murder like this. In one old picture, there was a line written on the roof of the maintenance building: “There is one path to freedom. Its milestones are: obedience, honesty, cleanliness, sobriety, diligence, orderliness, sacrifice, truthfulness, love of the fatherland.” Moving forward, the memorial outside of the museum in the camp summarizes it well: Never Again.
Never again!