Wewelsburg Internship, Summer 2008

Some photos from my internship at the Kreismuseum Wewelsburg:

The Wewelsburg Castle was originally built in 1603 for the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn, but in 1934 was taken over by Heinrich Himmler to be a center for Nazi ideology.

Himmler had a concentration camp nearby to do construction on the castle. This photo is of the building used as the cafeteria and kitchen in the concentration camp. It is now used as low-income housing.

This is the concentration camp memorial.

The roll-call grounds of the camp. This is one of the few memorial sites of the camp, where nothing else can be built.

My desk in the library of the Wewelsburg Museum.