Monday, June 1, 2009

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

The next is a concentration camp in Germany. They have plenty of them around but this one is particularly famous.Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. Remember this lady? She is Anne Frank, the lady who wrote the book "Diary of Anne Frank".

Her memorial is in the camp, with a distinctive teddy bear on her memorial.
A view of the park in Bergen-Belsen.
Walls of the museum, does it look like a jail.
You will see plenty of humps of soil like this in the camp and the words, they say here rest 2500 causalities. Even after the war ended and the liberation of the camp, people still die of starvation in these camps. As the causality rates are too high and plus the dead people from before the liberation, the allied forces had no choice to dig a big hole and lay them to rest all together in these hump.

War is indeed scary. Lucky the Rein of Nazi is long gone.

Bergen

This is the closest town you can find near our camp. This is Bergen, which people in Germany usually call it Bergen-Belsen. I got to learn from my German friend, Peter, that Bergen means hill in German.The town of Bergen. It was closing the end of winter that I took these photos. The flowers are about to bloom!
The railway of Bergen. My friend was crazy enough to run down to the bottom of hill to get this picture taken.
The sign of Bundesweer
I met this girl in a Italian shop in Bergen and I would try my best to marry this girl. They say to keep a man is through the stomach. And this lady had scored 11/10 for my stomach! She cook the best spaghetti in the whole of Germany. If I had a chance, I will go there once again just to try her cooking.

Soltau

It will be the smaller towns of Germany that I will be talking on from now. This post will be dedicated to Soltau, one of the small towns near my camp.

As you know most of the sundays in town are usually dead, I was lucky to be around Soltau on a shopping sunday. The town was packed with people.
The busy Sunday morning of Soltau.

It was also start of spring time that I went, so there were many plum blossom tat time and the whole town was beautiful.