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.).
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