Visited the concentration camp at Buchenwald, which was one of the first to be built and think it might have been the largest. A very eery feeling walking around, particularly in the crematorium where I couldn't spend more than a minute or so.

It was so noticeably different to visiting an old gaol and the realities of the history is so much more to take in. It's interesting how much of the original camp was demolished (intentionally) after the war and the idea was just to have a memorial at the site. How do you make a memorial for something like this? How do you decide what is it important to be retained and what can be remembered by pictures? It seems to me that they changed their mind with the memorial and preservation half way, leaving some buildings and their remains in place and others the trees have engulfed.

Either way, it's not a visit that I will forget in a while.