On the outskirts of Munich, lies the old medieval town of Dachau. Just outside the city center can today be found enduring testimony to the evil that was born here in 1933, the Dachau Concentration Camp. Dachau was the originator, role-model, and training ground for the vast order of brutality that spread over half of Europe in the wake of the armies of the Third Reich, and which ultimately culminated in history's greatest crime: the Final Solution.

The camp was divided into two sections: the camp area and the crematorium. The camp area consisted of 32 barracks, including one for clergy imprisoned for opposing the Nazi regime and one reserved for medical experiments. The courtyard between the prison and the central kitchen was used for the summary execution of prisoners. The camp was surrounded by an electrified barbed-wire gate, a ditch, and a wall with seven guard towers. When the Americans liberated the camp in April 1945, they found approximately 32,000 prisoners, crammed 1,600 to each of 20 barracks, which had been designed to house 250 people each.

The current Memorial Site at Dachau combines the historical authenticity of the original environment and its many surviving buildings with the function of now being a place of memory, of pilgrimage, and of education. The thirty two barracks used to house the over 200,000 prisoners from more than 30 countries that were housed in Dachau were torn down, but two were rebuilt for the memorial site. 25,613 prisoners are believed to have died in the camp and almost another 10,000 in its subcamps, primarily from disease, malnutrition and suicide.

I decided to process this gallery in black and white, with many images captured from inside the buildings looking outward. Dachau is a powerfully emotional place to visit, and my visit here was deeply moving and memorable. I hope these images in some way portray this.