Escape to Colditz

28th October 20266th September 2016
Posted in: Draft, Travel

Mohne Dam
Buchenwald
Bach House (Bachhaus), Eisenach
Lion’s Mound
Ypres

Mohne Dam

Buchenwald

We stopped at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial near Weimar on 2 September 2016. To see how the barracks looked during the Second World War compared with the site today. Take a look at my Buchenwald then and now photographs.

A path running beside the curved concrete fence posts and barbed wire of the Buchenwald concentration camp perimeter in 2016 — The perimeter fence at Buchenwald

A gravel track across the open grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in 2016, framed by overhanging trees — The open camp grounds at Buchenwald

A wide view across the barracks foundations at Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in 2016, with the gatehouse, a red-roofed building and a watchtower along the treeline — Where the barracks stood at Buchenwald

The crematorium building and tall brick chimney at Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in 2016, seen beyond the barracks foundations — The crematorium at Buchenwald

The cleared gravel site of Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in 2016, with the long red-roofed depot building and distant hills — The depot building and open site at Buchenwald

Curved concrete fence posts strung with barbed wire leading to a white watchtower at Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in 2016 — A watchtower and the double fence at Buchenwald

A long single-storey building with lawns, stone paths and an information board at Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in 2016 — One of the surviving buildings at Buchenwald

The gatehouse of Buchenwald concentration camp memorial in 2016, a long low building with a central clock tower above the camp gate — The gatehouse at Buchenwald

Bachhaus, Eisenach

Lion’s Mound

Ypres