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| Gate at the entrance to Dachau. Translated, it means "Work sets you free." |
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| A barracks were the prisoners were held. Instead of beds, prisoners were basically stacked on these shelves. |
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| Footprints of the demolished barracks with a guard tower and a recreated barracks in the background. Dachau was the first concentration camp and the model for all others. While there were a large number of Jewish prisoners in Dachau, the majority of prisoners were not - they were political prisoners, foreigners, POWs, homosexuals, gypsies, and criminals. After liberation, the camp served as a prison for SS soldiers as they awaited trial and then later as a refugee camp for Germans displaced by the war. |
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| The crematorium and gas chamber building. Over 35,000 of the 200,000 prisoners who were held in the camp between 1933 and 1945 died. A further 1,071 (of 6,000 total) prisoners died on a forced march from the camp into the Swiss Alps just weeks before the camp was liberated. |
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| A gas chamber. |
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| The ovens in the crematorium. |
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| Lake Alpsee, near the border with Switzerland, below Hohenschwangu Castle and Neuschwanstein Castle. |
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| The view of Neuschwanstein Castle high up in the Alps. This castle, built by "Crazy" King Ludwig, was the model for Disney's Magic Kingdom. |
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| Hohenschwangu Castle, built in 1833 by King Maximillian II of Bavaria and the childhood home of King Ludwig. |
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| The view of Neuschwanstein Castle from the courtyard of Hohenschwangu Castle. |
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| The view of the western side of Neuschwanstein Castle on the trek up the mountain. |
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| The eastern view of the castle from the viewing platform towards the base of the castle. |
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| On the tour of Neuschwanstein with my classmates Carolina (from Mexico), Ryan (Milwaukee), and Subhashini (Sri Lanka). |
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| Inside the courtyard of Neuschwanstein. |
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| Lake Alpsee and Hohenschwangu Castle, with the Alps in the background, from the balcony of Neuschwanstein Castle. |
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