A Sober Day at a Concentration Camp
I woke up to another wet, but warm morning. The sun came out and temps were back in the mid-80s. Today we had an opportunity to stop and tour the Mauthausen Nazi Concentration Camp. To reach it we had to climb up a ridge overlooking the Danube Valley, involving a 1 km climb up a 14 % grade. My group of guys decided it was a good time to race again to see who was the girly man…I didn’t loose.
The camp was built like a castle and had a million dollar view of the Danube Valley. The Austrian government has made it into a showcase. Other than a few tourists like us, there were several hundred school kids touring. To say the experience was distressing was an understatement. There were lots of room depicting man’s inhuman treatment to his fellow man…gas chambers and crematoriums. All of us were troubled by this place where over 130,000 souls were exterminated by civilized people that many of us had descended from. Again I have to pause and be grateful for my good fortune!
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