Oh, the places you'll go: Dachau

January 20

Today started with breakfast and checkout at the hotel like normal, then a thirty minute drive to Dachau, Germany where we visited the concentration camp there for two hours. This was the first camp built by Hitler in 1933. It was a very somber and sobering experience, and made the war come even more alive. We were able to walk through the museum, the barracks, and even the ovens and gas chamber which was disguised as showers for the Jews. It is heartbreaking! There are/were thirty-six barracks at the camp which were all built to house 200 people in each, but by the end of the war they were putting nearly 2,000 people in each barack. It’s something that is good to see in person, but I have no need to see it again! After out stop in Dachau we had a two hour drive to Nurnberg for lunch where we stopped to see a site that Hitler often gave speeches at. Then it was another four hour drive to Prague, Czech Republic. We got to our hotel then walked to a restaurant for dinner: Strahov Monastic Brewery- it wasn’t that good. The evening was free for us so we just hung out together at the hotel.