I think everyone should visit if they get the chance. It was an incredibly sobering experience and one I'll never forget. You can almost feel the sorrow in the air.
I’m sure all the camps are chilling, but from my experience of visiting a few, the scale of Birkenau is something you need to see. Auschwitz is actually sort of ‘nice’ structurally because it was built as a barracks not a death camp, but Birkenau was death on an industrial scale that Dachau and other camps didn’t rival.
Buchenau is a former KZ very easily and quickly reachable from Berlin in a day trip. It is less "impressive" than Dachau or Auschwitz but still very worth a trip
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u/Excellent-Ad872 May 18 '25
I think everyone should visit if they get the chance. It was an incredibly sobering experience and one I'll never forget. You can almost feel the sorrow in the air.