Day 25: the concentration camp

We visited sachenhouse concentration camp. It was a horrible raining windy cold cold dark day. The camp had housed 600 000 prisoners over its course. The stories were horrifying. The Jews were forced to be involved in the hanging of their friends. They were forced to work out in the cold all day without jackets. They were ridiculed and starved. It wasn't only Jewish people at the camp. There were also soldiers and people who stood against and those who got in the way.  We walked around separately trying to absorb all the horrors the place carried. We needed lone time, thought time.  That evening we cooked up another storm and then headed to a beer hall with a few Aussie friends from the hostel. It was large beer hall and we ordered a litre of beer each- for those of us who's biceps could handle it :) and some traditional German dishes - currywurst and sourkrout (not sure how you spell that)!