12th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Lantern of the Dead
I was visiting Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp with my travel companions when I spotted this sign. I thought it made for a good picture. It turns out it is actually really heart breaking. It reads, "LANTERN OF THE DEAD here were spread on the orders of the Nazi leader Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp ashes of missing - CREMATED depores the crematory oven." It is hard to imagine that in a place so beautiful at one point there was so much pain and evil.
Photo Detail
Date Taken: | 06.2014 |
Date Uploaded: | 11.2014 |
Photo Location: | Natzwiller, France |
Camera: | Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XSi |
Copyright: | © Britney Kent |