Germany has a dark history to this modern country, the Nazis being the biggest contributor. Their party’s agenda started innocently and admirably enough – to create a unified country for all Germadic people until Hitler decided to annihilate individuals he deemed not worthy, especially the Jews.
To get a feel of how the Jews were treated during that time, we were brought to a Nazi concentration camp where the Jews were kept as slaves and worked to death. It was a sobering experience indeed to see their living conditions and walk through the gas chambers where they were duped to ‘shower’ to death.
A 20 minute documentary revealed the scene visually but the impact it had on me wasn’t what I expected. It could have been filmed in a more personal way but the doc focused more on the numbers who perished instead of personal accounts from the victims themselves.
Nazi Concentration Camp in Dachau
How the Jews lived back then
The bus was unusually quiet as we reflected on the atrocities inflicted by men on men. We reached Heidelberg, a quaint riverside town by the river, in the evening to roam around for slightly more than an hour before heading to camp. I went off by myself and did the most unusual thing ever – I went shopping. Yes, rewarded myself with some gorgeously sexy dresses.
Quaint riverside town of Heidelberg
We drove through the Rhine Valley the next morning, an area famed for its medieval castles. Stopped at a small town of St Goar where we visited a beer stein factory and took pictures of the biggest cuckoo clock in the area. Was so tempted to buy a cuckoo clock but the bulk and price stopped me.
Beer steins and cuckoo clock in St Goar
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