Blog post #3

Both the holocaust museum and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp expressed the complete horror and destruction caused by the actions of Hitler and the Nazi party. Though through both you could feel the German peoples dislike for this subject, also was a clear want to make all its history known so something like this never happens again. One of the saddest parts was walking around the outside of the concentration camp where different people and groups could place grave stones for their fallen. These stones came in all shapes and sizes from large stone sculptures to one which was carved from a tree which used to stand at that location. These stones also came with inscriptions in all different languages, from Russian to Finnish, to German. There was only one that I found which was in English. It was for the British Expeditionary Force. The inscription ended with a verse. It read, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. (John 5:13)”. To have the courage and love for your fellow countrymen to have the courage to be willing to go through the torture which these men went through in the concentration camps is beyond words.

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