Dachau

Dachau

The train rails are gone, the processing center an exhibition. The barracks scrubbed.  

The hanging loops in The shower rooms removed, racks and whipping tables clean and displayed. The execution wall & Blood Ditch grown over, trimmed and landscaped.

“Shower” rooms with gas jets are sealed.  The three-person ovens impervious to the scorn. 
Ash dumps and mass graves covered, and monuments marked. 

Hell has been sanitized for public viewing...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 9/28/2018 3:36:00 PM
But they can never silence the cries of the multitudes that was sacrificed there, never soothe the pain in broken hearts and never erase the memories of the horror committed there. I am not Jewish and had no one die in a camp but I did have a 19 year old uncle die trying to liberate those camps. The ghost of his memory demands that this never gets forgotten. God bless you and yours.
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Date: 9/27/2018 1:32:00 PM
This poems truly captures the historical significance of the horrific, hellish, and one of the inhumane events of all time-the holocaust. There should be a better way to show respect and honor for all those who lost their lives at that Nazi death camp.
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Date: 11/24/2017 11:13:00 AM
BJ, WOW ! what a dramatic and deep write, you touched my very heart and soul, so well done ~
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Date: 11/20/2017 9:48:00 AM
I cannot imagine the emotional impact of visiting there even with the described "sanitization." Thanks for sharing ~ john
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