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Inside the Reichstag

Date: 28 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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So outside the library, the students gathered and took a myriad of texts by the various jews. The books were then burned in the open square. Today, outside the now university. this memorial is placed. Within the grounds, shelves that could contain 10,000 texts. Reading further into it, you can state that by peering through the glass, you catch you own reflection, and it makes you ponder on your own actions, to ensure that we will never experience the extent of genocide again

Date: 28 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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A peer into the future

So at the book memorial, this is the plaque in place to remember. Look at the date, 1920, prior to the persecution of the jews, in fact, this passage was in one of the texts that were burnt that night. It reads 'it begins with the burning of the books, and will only end with the burning of the people'..... Eerie

Date: 28 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

The first purposely built concentration camp....it was provided to be both a model for other camps and a training group for the SS.

Date: 27 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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Memorial at Station Z

So, if i tell you that the only way into the concentration camp was station A, i kinda think you may be able to guess what station Z was.

Date: 27 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

At Sachsenhausen the chosen method of extermination was not the gas chambers, but lining the poor soles against this wall and shooting them, while their peers looked on. The pressure placed on the SS from those waiting & pleeding forced them to look towards alternative means, and thus station Z was built.

Date: 27 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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East German Mentality Still Stands

So, Sachsenhausen was the first Concentration Camp open as a memorial. It was in the days that Germany was still divided. The Jews, were not the only ones persucted during this time, there were also vagriants, gyspys, criminals etc...each identified with their own coloured triangle. This Memorial only remembers those where were placed in the camps for political reasons (orange triangle).

Date: 27 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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Just a thought.

Date: 27 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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Work will set you free?

The gate at station A. In german, it reads 'work will set you free'??? Somehow dont think that that ever come into fruitation.

Date: 27 January 2007
Photographer: cathdoran: gallery
Location: Germany
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The perfect model

So Hilter come up with the great plan! Security is easy to control in a triangle, you can have more prisioners and fewer guards....This is the model of the ''prision'' section of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp