This was a sobering experience for me. As someone whose has learned a lot about the events of World World Two, it’s sobering going to a place where the events occurred that we learned about so much in school. While Sachasenhausen isn’t as known as the larger concentration camps, a lot of horrific things still occurred there.
Visiting other historical sites of World War Two, this place has a complete different feeling compared to the rest. Visiting other places I was reflective, but most people knew what they were going into. In the concentration camp, the overwhelming feeling of the deaths of innocent people was their. At someone points while going around the camp. You could feel the death on your shoulders.
I kept on wondering to myself what occurred in someone mind to normalize this situation. The dehumanization, attacking, killing of innocent people. How could a guard wake up in morning and be able to keep doing this day after day?