Catching Up!

Since arriving in Germany a little over a month and a half ago, I have been literally spoiled by the blessings of Almighty God to travel so much so that I haven't had the time to keep up this blog. I hope to catch up and write about experiences in Rome, Assisi, France, and other trips taken in Germany. After all that is the point of blogging: to write as you experience things, so I will make my best attempt to catch up and keep up.

My father and I just recently took a trip to Dachau concentration camp, the first concentration camp and the model for all others throughout the reign of Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party from 1933-1945. It was an eye opening experience to see how the rising to power of one man and his comrades during a seemingly ripe time in a countries history could persuade the masses to join him. To join him by means of smooth rhetoric and the most evil ideals.

All those who didn't meet the expectations of Hitler's master race were sent to these concentration camps, code named re-education camps. They worked under the most grueling of conditions, with just enough nourishment to keep them alive. Yet, if those sent to these camps grew too weary to work, then they would be shot, gassed, and/or tortured. It was painful to see such complete and utter disrespect and disregard for human life. Anyone who was a threat to Hitler's master plan "Mein Kampf" was silenced: priests, communists, politicians, Jews, farmers, gypsies the homeless, mentally and physically disabled, homosexuals, etc. One cannot even begin to imagine what it was to live during these years in Germany; yet, in God's infinite mercy, great is the reward of those who suffered so greatly in these camps and choose to turn to the only Light left in the midst of such grave darkness.