On Thursday we had a rough day. We traveled about 20 minutes north of the city to the site of a former concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. It was both physically and emotionally challenging to move through this massive and ominous space of Nazi Germany (and later Communist East Germany!). The museum is a decentralized space where the visitor is meant to move through the whole camp and see – and hear with the help of a handheld digital tour guide – what prisoners were forced to experience. It's a very well done museum and worth the visit to get a sense of the atrocities of the time.
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The main gate through which all prisoners must pass.
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By the time we got back into the city, most of us could find some slim silver lining to the day: the weekend.
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| Optimism in the Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn station. |
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