Second impressions

A little bit more about what there is to experience in Germany, we visited Sauchsanhausen, the "model" concentration camp that all of the others were supposed to be based off of. I thought it would be a normal history lesson but it was certainly more than that. To know what the Nazis did but to also see the instruments they used to carry out the genocide of the Jewish people in Germany, is truly disturbing. I have a lineage that is partly from the Czech Republic, or Czechloslovakia as it was called at the time, and just to know that some members of my family could've been put into those camps made me furious, and nearly break down into tears when I saw the ovens they put all the bodies into.

The next day we got to go on a tour of some of Berlin's underground, including a WWII air raid bunker. It was interesting, especially the part where they had a bunch of old weapons on display. Most were completely rusted out but you could still distictly make out the models of the STEN, MP40, MP44, Panzer Waffe, Kar98k, and DL-44. Which for a WWII buff like myself was by far the coolest part of the tour. I'd just like to point out the diversity of  guns on display in the museum because that's what we're supposed to be talking about.

That weekend was an especially cool experience as I got to go to Heide Park, the German version of six flags or worlds of fun. It was very cool to see the small differences which I will now list for your amusement: They don't check any bags upon entrance to the park, which meant I brought a crap ton of sandwiches, drinks, and so on. When we got on the first roller coaster, which was about a 45ish minute wait, they had a kind of baggage carrousel that you could put all your stuff in, and that thing would turn so that no one could access it until you got off your ride, frickin awesome, best part of the park by far. Which leads me to beleive that theft is a bigger problem than I'm seeing in Germany because I've been told multiple times by several different people to watch out for pick pocketers, and to always carry valuables in my front pockets.

 I'll be back to share my final impressions in the next blog post.