Crus de Agnus Dei con quilon menthae - April 2nd, 2006
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German trip, day 3 part 1: Dachau
The first thing you see in Dachau are the walls and the barbed wire. Our guide, an Irishman named Brendan, began the tour in the first place the inmates would be brought. He stood over a wooden table and explained that in this place, you would first be stripped completely naked, given a number, and given some bare minimum clothing. This room also doubled as a torture chamber - the table he was standing in front of was a whipping block, the holes in the posts behind us used to carry attachment points for chains, and it was common for prisoners to be tied there, with their hands behind their backs, raised off the ground by their wrists, for hours. Because a person in Dachau had no legal recourse, no legal identity, and no-one to appeal to, the guards were free to literally do whatever they wanted with the "subhuman scum" with absolutely no fear of retribution.
( Warning: Disturbing images ahead. )
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