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Nazi HQ
... to provide a pictorial overview. Silence overcomes the theatre as we watch unfold the terrors of the camp. It is very hard to watch this and then leave the theatre with a dry eye and a feeling of extreme sadness for all that took place. Persecution against not only Jews, but gypsies, academics, criminals, the mentally displaced, the clergy and disenchanted locals are all targets for this Nazi madness. The camp was originally built as an ammunitions factory to support ...
October Fest!
... glasses, who are served by female bartenders whose boobs want to escape from the tight dress that is called dirndl. Of course with a start we immediately ordered 1 liter of beer, plus half a chicken for each of us (sausage and fried chicken is the traditional food in October Fest). Then two friends of the Indian who are French also joined us and the partying started. After the 2nd glass (bucket) of beer we were already friends with our ...
Day 1 in Munich, with daytrip to Dachau
... a refugee camp after the war, but they reconstructed parts of it for the memorial. Rather disturbingly, some of the few original buildings standing were the crematoriums and a gas chamber (that was apparently "only" used for tests). (the "only" seems to indicate on the order of a few dozen groups, rather than the assembly line standard of the death camps. The tour guide seemed to think this an important distinction.) Anyway, ...
Prototype for Terror
... tears. There was a film taken after the Allies liberated the camp, what moved me the most were images of the victims of the camp hearing the news that they were free, such bitter sweet tears.
The New Pinakothek was a great gallery, lots of very romantic images, and Van Gogh’s sunflowers, I’ve now seen 2 of the 5 or 6 sunflower paintings.
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My Oktoberfest experence.
... tents for a long time, only to have the security guards announce the tent was closed for the evening and no one else would be allowed in. After a few hours, we finally found a beer garden that was letting people in. Unfortunately, you need a table to be served beer. They won't sell it to you unless you're sitting. This leads to people never leaving their seats and getting downright violent if you dare sit down where their friend was. This is ...