Munich

Munich was one of our first biggest screw ups when we arrived to our hostel to find out that we had actually made reservations for the following day and that they were completely full! The crazy thing was though, there was a man with the same last name as me (even the same spelling!) staying that night so everyone was just super confused. Luckily we were right next door to two other hostels and one of them had room for us for the night! Although we weren't in Munich long it was quiet memorable as we spent a long afternoon at Dachau. It's always so shocking to learn about the horrible and inhumane things that went on under Hitler's command, however seeing it for your own eyes makes it even more gut wrenching. We walked through tiny barracks and the overall camp which was probably about the size of our old high school campus that at times held more than 200,000 people. I couldn't even imagine seeing that many people there, I'm not even sure how they had space to move around. The video that was played showed some of the most horrendous and heart wrenching images I've ever seen; the 75 year old man sitting in front of me along with his entire family all had tears streaming down their faces, at which point I wondered had they had family members trapped in that hellacious place? And as we walked through the gas chambers and stood in the center of the room, peering up at what had been deceitfully inscribed as the shower room, I felt sick. And with the incinerators almost within arms reach I can only wonder how can one human possibly inflict such inhumane treatment upon another human? In respect to those who suffered in these terrible places, I will not be posting photos.

After a long and eye opening afternoon at Dacau we ended our day doing a little sightseeing around the city center and headed for Switzerland in the early morning! 

Oh, and I got my favorite candy in the whole world that I discovered while studying abroad in Spain many summers ago, at the train station and my heart was overjoyed!