Dauchau was the first concentration camp and was originally intended to provide workers for the munitions industry. Nobody died in the gas chambers here, but many were executed in other ways or starved to death. The administration building has been turned into a museum here, and there are always two things that I find the most disturbing: the huge map of central Europe showing the locations of the hundreds of extermination and work camps, and the biographies of individual prisoners, along with some of their personal effect. Your heart would have to be made of stone to leave without shedding tears. The German government continues to maintain this site and grant free admission to millions of visitors every year. They see it as their obligation.
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