Dachau- a sobering experience

This is Elise, reporting from Germany. We went to Dachau today. I was highly anticipating the concentration camp today. I've read a lot of literature on the Holocaust and i wanted to see this piece of history.
The building were the prisoners were first documented held pictures taken during the incareration. There was information listed all over the building. Here is where they were to enter their names when they entered; there was were the SS soldiers took the belongings of the prisoners and carefully logged the items (like they would ever get them back); another place was where they were to strip naked and be beaten into the freezing cold outside to stand up for their first roll call. As you followed the information around the building there were real pictures taken of what had happened. You could picture people standing terriffied in line, waiting to see what would happen to them next. Outside they would stand, naked, freezing, terriffied, sick, weak, old and young, male and female. Dachau was the first concentration camp. It started out as a labor camp. While they had a gas chamber it was not used to kill hundreds at a time. It is speculated that is was only used a couple of times, and ONLY killed 20 at a time....next to the gas chamber was the crematorium. There was an old crematorium and a newer one. That one was built when the old one could no longer handle the thousands of bodies that they needed to burn. There was a sign saying that the crematorium was used sporatically because the limited amount of coal, and when they ran out the people were just thrown into mass graves.
They did such horrible experiements on these prisoners. These prisoners were not limited to Jews. They had all different countries. French, Italian, Hungarian...the list goes on. Some prisoners were subjected to altitude tests, some to hypothermia, and others were purposely infected with malaria and others to see how different "medicines" worked. Most, if not all, died from these experiments. The infirmary/hospital was not a place of healing. Despite all of the medical contraptions that was placed at the camps, they were not used to help the people that needed it. They were mostly used to pick the gold filling out of their teeth.

Tomorrow we are heading to Belgium. I will clear my head with the beautiful sights out of the window.