Noah’s Site

Last Friday, I went on my sopho­more class field trip to the Struthof Nazi con­cen­tra­tion camp in France. It was pretty cool, and a great place to take pic­tures. The camp is split up into three parts. The first part is the main building/museum, with exhibits and movies show­ing. The second part is the actual camp itself, with bar­racks, a scaf­fold, and the crematorium.

The bar­racks has been turned into an exhi­bi­tion of life in the camps, with draw­ings, pic­tures, and arti­facts on dis­play. In the cre­ma­to­rium, we weren’t allowed to take pic­tures, but there was an oven, a few prison cells, and an exe­cu­tion room.

After that, we went down the hill a ways and came to the gas cham­ber. It was a small build­ing with a smoke stack coming out of the side, fairly non-​discreet. Inside, it only had about three rooms, two of them with stor­age freez­ers to hold bodies and body parts for experimentation.

It was a very sober­ing, yet good experience.

See the pic­tures here (all pic­tures are full res­o­lu­tion 3008x2000px.).