A Sobering Experience

Two days ago was a dream. We toured Munich and ate some of the best food Germany has to offer at the Haufbrauhaus. Yesterday, we walked through the Dachau concentration camp. It was astounding to see and walk through the rooms that held thousands of people at one time and to realize just how inhumane humans can be. I still can't believe that people could be that cruel for such a long period of time. It isn't fathomable that so many could perish in such a beautiful part of the world because of unusually cruel people and their indoctrination techniques and scare tactics. To think that they tried to cover up the evidence also astounds me because it implies that they knew what they were doing was unacceptable and wrong. Yet they stayed the path and So many suffered because of it. Walking through the encampment, you tend to wonder what could have been done to stop it or you feel a deep anger at all of the cruelty but in the end you accept that it happened, even though you can't imagine how or why or even imagine what it really looked or sounded like because for us privileged enough to be here, such evil acts have never occurred on such a large scale, and never so close to our homes.