Germany Day 12

Saturday
Road Trip!
We all piled in the van and we drove for over 2 hours form Frankfurt to Weimar in what was Eastern Germany.
We went to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.
I have read read lots of books on this time period, and I am familiar with alot of the torture the Nazis inflicted on not only Jews, but everybody they didn't like-gypsies, mentally handicapped, political prisoners, the elderly. But somehow that knowledge made walking through the camp all that much harder.
It is so hard to describe. I took lots of pictures outside, because of course you are no allowed to take picture inside.

When we entered the camp we walked into to the crematorium and saw the ovens and the cellar. Out of respect, it is a place of silence-but you could sense the weight of the atrocities committed there. It was such a mix of emotions, part of me wanted to puke..the other part just wanted to cry.
Then we went into the museum portion of the camp. They took the storehouse building and turned it into 2 floors of artifacts and information. As you entered a new section in the chronology there would be an English description, but the frustrating part was that most of the descriptions were in German, and I kept having to ask for a translation. Even with the language barrier, you could still figure out what you were looking at.
We also saw the disinfecting rooms, where the people were processed when they arrived.

It is a place I will never forget.

Then we left the camp and were going to go to the castle where Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, but exit from the autobahn was closed. But from the autobahn, we could see the castle at the top of the hill.
Its ok...I will just have to see it when I go back.