It was pretty remarkable, and they have it guarded 24 hours a day.  The guard actually marches back n forth (video below), and there is essentially an ongoing ceremony everyday.

We left there around 2:30 to get the family to the airport for their early evening flight. I then headed over the the Gaylord National for the remainder of the week for the Channel Partners Show.

With the family home safe, I had to spend yesterday getting our exhibit setup.  Since we got through it pretty quickly, I decided to go to the city and visit the Holocaust Museum while Troy stayed behind for the show kickoff.

The museum was quite disturbing. I did not post any photos.  

I knew HItler was a bad man, but I cannot believe the way in which he reached the position of Chancellor of Germany.  I also can’t believe he was able to do the things that he did.  For example, in his first year of power, in the first part of the year, he fired all jewish doctors.  A few months later, he disbarred all jewish lawyers, then by the end of the year, he closed all jewish hospitals.  He then began his master plan of exterminating the jewish people (and gypsies). 

He started by killing off children and adults with diseases to “clean the gene pool”. He then selected pregnant women and the elderly. He was just a very sick man.  The process in which he got everyone to his camps so just as disturbing.  He would line them up by the hundreds after they got off the rail.  Make them strip down and then go into the camps.  Meanwhile there are signs everyone saying they are going to get a clean shower and get deloused before “officially” joining the camp population.  He then marched them into the shelter and locked them in a room and killed them with gas.  The lift floor would them bring them to the next level to be put into the crematory.  This happened everyday year after year.

There was an area of the display that had a large wall (to keep kids from seeing), but it was a video showing the medical experiments used with some of the jewish folks. For example, they tested infectious diseases in the children to try to create a better safeguard for German soldiers.  They would also put adults in freezing water and see how long they could last… which ultimately allowed them to create better clothing for the German pilots to allow them to survive longer in the cold water.

It truly was a master plan of extermination.  Very disturbing trip to the museum.