Writer's Block: Beyond Our Ken

[kudagirl]

I've had many experiences like that.  I saw my father's spirit. I looked away, looked back and he was still there. I visited Dachau, a concentration camp near Munich.  As soon as we crossed the bridge, I started crying and didn't stop till we crossed the bridge on the way out.  Some places have an imprint were terrible things have occured. I'm not

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[debris4spike]

I have been to Dachau - and would agree!

Although 3 days previously to that we had been visiting friends in Strasburg and went out for the afternoon. We parked the car in a sunny car-park with everyone chatting ... a lovely day. As we walked up the track we all started feeling cold and started whispering - it was horrible. We then found we were visiting Natzweiller-Strutoff Camp. We hadn't known where our friends were taking us, but the atmosphere changed before we even walked in.

[kudagirl]

I visited many places in Germany while I lived there. My ex was shocked by how I was able to understand the language since he went to classes to learn German while I never even tried to learn the language at all. I didn't drive while there, but never had a problem telling him how to get anywhere. It was like I had come home. My father's family goes back nine generations to Germany. Other than the cold weather, I would love to live in Germany. I loved the lifestyle and the people. Visiting Dachau was the most intense feeling I have ever had

[debris4spike]

I don't know if it was there when you went - but I remember seeing the sculpture on the gates at Dachau - with the words "Never Again" in the 4 languages.

We must never forget the horrors - although sadly similar things are still happening.

My mother actually knew one of the few people who escaped from Dachau (in 1938), which is why we went, having visited Natz-Strut a few days earlier. He was Czeck and had been imprisoned in 1937, after preaching in a Baptist Church.

[kudagirl]

Yes, The memorial site was impressive. It has been reworked since I visited there in the eighties. I doubt that most of the world knows that there weren't just Jewish prisoners at Dachau. There were also Christian prisoners with many being preachers, bishops, deacons and priests. There were resistance fighters, members of royalty, gypsies and homosexuals. The Dachau camp was a training center for SS concentration camp guards, and the camp’s organization and routine became the model for all Nazi concentration camps. There were horrible medical experiments done to the prisoners. It's a very sad moment in history.