Started this day off in Dachau where we visited the concentration camp. Dachau was the only camp that lasted all 12 years of the war. We walked into the gates that read "WORK WILL SET YOU FREE". Dachau was a work camp not an extermination camp like some others were known to be. It was said that some one in Dachau was only to last 6-8 months there. There was a really great museum there and it had very vivid details on what the prisoners went through and what their living conditions were. At the camp we were able to enter a remolded barrack where the prisoners slept and two of the original infirmaries. I got a sick, sick feeling walking into those places. It felt all too real.
Next stop was the BMW Velt! Unfortunately the museum was closed. The BMW Velt was a jump into the digital architecture.
Also on the same stop we saw the Olympic stadium by Gunther Behnisch that hosted the '72 Olympics. This was the second Olympics to be held in Germany, the first was held in Berlin. The stadium was huge!! The mass of the suspension and structural supports were mind blowing! I really enjoyed this one! We were able to go into the natatorium and the stadium. The natatorium was really beautiful because you could see the reflection of the water on the roof.
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