The concentration camp at Dachau was the first established by the Nazis. Unlike many others this was not a extermination facility, at least not initially. This camp was used mainly to house political prisoners and others who got in the way.
The dormitory style housing has all been torn down. The structure you see in the picture below is a replica, built to the same standards as the original. Of the many other housing units, only the foundations were left, as a footprint of what used to be.
We were also taken into the gas chambers and incineration rooms. I couldn't bring myself to take pictures. Walking through that series of rooms and seeing the pictures of bodies piled atop one another was the most powerful experience I've ever felt in a place. 
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