Natzwiller Travel Guide

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At the bottom of the camp lie a prison block where prisoners were given special attention and another building which housed rooms for awful pseudoscientific medical experiments as well as a crematory oven in which the dead were cremated. A side room is full of funerary urns which deportee families were forced to buy though no guarantee was given as to whose ashes were included in the urn they received. Urns were only sent to families inside Germany and since most of the deportees were from all over Europe, their ashes ended up in a common ash pit located between the crematory and prison blocs.

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From the museum you can walk down past the former barracks buildings which stair step down the mountain from the museum. Each barracks foundation memorializes one of the former Nazi camps. Listen to the wind and remember those who were brought here and brutalized.

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The second half of the museum details the brutality of daily life here and in the sub-camps. Finally, the camp’s evacuation, subsequent trials for the jailers and the process that has been involved here with remembering.

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Through the barbed wire camp entrance you come to a replica of one of the barracks inside which is a museum that details the history of the camp and those who lived and died here in a series of ten rooms. The first few rooms go into the camp’s creation, organization and make-up of the deportee population.

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Through the barbed wire camp entrance you come to a replica of one of the barracks inside which is a museum that details the history of the camp and those who lived and died here in a series of ten rooms. The first few rooms go into the camp’s creation, organization and make-up of the deportee population.

Built atop a potato cellar that deportees were forced to build in 1943, the European Center on Resistance and Deportation introduces visitors to the awful world of Nazi barbarism. A series of exhibits demonstrates the horrors of each of the main Nazi camps with death figures that simply choke and disgust you. Exhibits also discuss the Resistance movements within Nazi-occupied Europe.