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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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... camp residents to achieve a level of control no one would dare to challenge when these thousands were driven to meet slave labor efficiency demands of superiors like Heinrich Himmler. The classification system used here involved three components: tattooed numbers, cloth patches of various primary shapes and, for the lowest tier, Star of David emblems. The symbol patches were coded to the officially sanctioned racial sub-group list using letters -- a hierarchy ...
Linz and Cesky Kromlov
... version and that is why they taste a little different. We quickly shopped in the town square (every city seems to have one) and then continued our drive to Ceskly Krumlov.
Cesky Krumlov is a great medieval town in the Czech Republic with a population of about 14,000. In 1992, Krumlov was voted by National Geographic as the 16th most beautiful town in the world. The walls around the city are unique as ...
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
Today I went through the Mauthausen concerntration camp from the Second World war. It was so difficult to come to terms with.. This camp was one of many set up by hitler and one of the last to be shut down by the Americans. One of the American shoulders stated that on the first day they buried 1200 then about 300 everyday after that because the Jews were to weak they ...