Munich, Day 4

02 May:

A semi relaxing sort of day.

Relaxing breakfast. Train ride to Dachau which was "easily accessible by train". Too bad easily accessible means 40 minute walk from the train. Forgot water. In small town with no shops to get water.

 

Felt lost about every 5 minutes but that's normal for here since there are no signs anywhere. Grumpy! But we did finally make it.

This is the map of our walk from the train station to the concentration camp.


View Dachau in a larger map
Dachau:

1st of 22 concentration camps in ww2. Very few words to express. Horrible. One of the most angering places I've ever been. Makes u wonder what excuses Germans have/had for it happening. 

Torture. Human experiments on ridiculous concepts. Allowing crazy doctors to run wild. Religious and political prisoners since 1933. Saw lying media coverage in the day. Crazy how it only took a few years to go from normal to crazy. Pride. Economic downturn. Trashing capitalism as not fair. Electing fringe leader that says he's fighting for your rights; what you're entitled to, not realizing what he stood for or not caring. Political leaders who fear and install fear in everyday citizens about other everyday citizens. And it only took a few years, literally less than 4 from time of election to start the murdering. Meanwhile the whole town/city looks the other way. Extremely humbling. Makes u never want to stay silent about anything that seems the slightest wrong ever again.

English Garden:

3 mile long (as if we hadn't had enough walking) park. Rivers with surfers.

 

Lots of gravel. Biergarten where I got to fill up stein with coke. Started immediate downpour during meat and potatos. Chaos. Walked and walked and walked.

MarianPlatz:
Wondered around. Ate yummy ice cream. No good trinket shops to buy mother's day present or little presents for everyone else. Sorry mom. Looks like everyone including mom is just getting chocolate.