Dachau was the first concentration camp built and used between 1933 and 1945, until the U.S. 7th Army liberated it. I went to this camp memorial site twice in 2011, more with the curiosity to see how the Germans present it to the tourists, than with the intention to learn more about the history. These photos are selected and combined from my 2 visits. You would notice the different colours of the leaves on the trees, etc. I have a couple of photos taken in Part 1 of the camp (the Exhibition) inserted in Part 2 (the Barracks), to help visualize what the crowded rooms had looked like. Part 3 is the crematorium section including the gas chamber. I have also included the last 2 photos of the memorial signs in Part 4 of the camp (the chapels) and used "Never Again" to conclude this album.

From what I observed, Germany, as the country where the unforgiven Hitler had lived and started the Holocaust, did try the best to be objective about it and disclosed the facts in documents and photos for the visitors and the future generations to view and to remember.

In the US, no matter how liberal, the president has to be a native-born American. I don't know anything about the German rules, but I always thought that had Germany carried out a rule that all the leaders had to be native-born citizens, Adolf Hitler, who was born in Austria, could have never become a powerful chancellor with so many real Germans as his followers.

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