Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

The sign on all of the 37 concentration camps which said that hard work will set you free.

 This is the main gate/guard tower for this concentration camp.  The clock's face is painted on to show the time of the liberation.

 This is a "trough"like structure where prisoners were forced to walk, then shot.  The wall was wood, so the bullets did not bounce back.  At the other end is a crematorium.

The zone between the camp and electrified fence and block fence.  Any prisoner in this zone was shot immediately.  No one is known to have escaped this camp.  If  remember our guide correctly, she said that 200,000 prisoners went through the camp, 60,000 were killed or died from illness or medical experimentation.  Gruesome.

When the Nazis lost the war, the Russians made this into their own concentration camp, where the cruelty continued.

We walked through one of the Jewish barracks, meant to hold 100, 3 bunks high, at the height of imprisonment, 250-500 prisoners were in this crowded space, an area perhaps 25 x 50 feet.

One of the special barracks' cells (where the most "important" prisoners were held)  we saw where Rev. Martin Neimoller was held.   It was amazing to see the cell where he was kept.He is famous for this quote:  First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- 
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- 
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

Breakfast in Berlin, followed by a day of shopping!

Berlin

 At the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, the symbol of peace.

This is the overview of the memorial to the Jewish people who died.  It has many turns,a maze of  hills and valleys within the maze itself.  One can feel the power there.  

Walking through the memorial to the Jewish people killed during WWII.  

Beautiful Dresden

 The golden statue of Augustus from Poland, responsible for the Baroque architecture in Dresden.

 The Cathedral in the square across the Elbe

 Inside the square of the cathedral, opera house, museum.

Just cooling their feet

 From the bridge over the Elbe, showing where old meets new

The Aethenian Fountain

Coffee in the morning

More Vienna

 City Center; parliament

City Center.  The objects in his hands are gold.

 Nannies watching the children in the park in the middle of the city.  The river is behind, as is the train tracks.  Our apartment is just up the street from here.

The flowers grow in the middle of all of the hustle bustle of Vienna.

We leave for Prague this afternoon.

More of beautiful Vienna