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Grüß Gott from Linz!
We rolled into Linz this afternoon after a stop in Melk to visit the Benedictine abbey fortress there. Melk Abbey is an incredible site and an absolutely beautiful place. It has been in continuous use as an abbey by the Benedictines since 1059 and the place is in great shape after some careful maintenance and a few well-planned restorations over the last 1200 years. Most of the pictures with this post are of the Melk Abbey but they didn't allow photography in the ...
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... a matter of life and death because they were used to sort prisoners into work battalions and/or to determine living space allocations. Pictures, oral history recordings and restored buildings here tell a mind-numbing tale of murder on an unimaginable scale as a result of shootings, death by electrocution on the 350 volt perimeter fence, medical experiments designed by SS doctors to reveal how survival rates could vary by exposure to extreme cold, and other ...
Linz and Cesky Kromlov
... narrow streets - we haved learned to "hug" the walls when cars pass. We ate lunch at one of the local restaurants. I had a wonderful chili (only means spicy) chicken dish and Jim was really adventuresome - he had a burger and fries! After lunch we shopped for about an hour and then caught the bus to Passau.
Because the Captain on the boat was a little worried about high water coming from the north due ...
Day 15
... of about 150m back to camp. At the base of the quarry I realised I could hear the unfamiliar sound of birds, frogs and insects...which were unusually absent within the camp grounds. At the base of the quarry there are two serene ponds, a contrast to the movie prior. The ground underfoot squelched as it retained water and just goes to show how difficult the environment must have become. Walking back up you get a feel of how difficult it is to ...
Mauthausen - concentration camp
... help them eg. Most of them could not eat! I stood in the gas chambers and also went through where they 'slept' and where they cremated their bodies..... Really disturbing few hours!!! I was very shocked by the size of the camp (I always imagined them very large!) and also by how modern the buildings were... It's very hard to imagine that it only happened 60-70 years ...
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