FloridaJT6MT
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Thank you for sharing. I plan to take my family to Germany someday to tour all the WWII sites (and just see the country too of course!). I’m really looking forward to this.On this wet, cold, cloudy Sunday morning we made a short trip to a nearby forest. The picture is as bad as the weather.
The location is actually a memorial, stop reading if you are not interested in "german history" (my English is not good so excuse wrong translation). I am not sure if this post is allowed, please remove/move if not OK.
In 1945 a train with 5000 people was moving from one Konzentrationslager to another one. This parking spot is where a small train station was at that time. Several hundred people were shot here by the Nazis during this stop, and buried next to the railway. After WW2 the american soldiers found the location, people of the region had to get the dead bodies out of the ground with bare hands (my wife’s grand-uncle was one of the people who had to dig, so this really happened). ALL people had to go there and look at the horrible scene.
More details in better english: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ-Transport_1945_Memorial
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