I am writing to you from my hotel in Hanover, Germany. Colin Taylor, (International Sales Manager) Jason Atkins, (Neil's Parts Australia - General Manager) and I arrived on Thursday. If you have been following my Twitter account you will know we have visited a few work sites and a few tourist sites the last two days. We have come to attend the 2009 Agri Technika farm show the next few days. We have meetings with a variety of foreign customers and suppliers scheduled.
We were able to visit the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on Friday. It is estimated 70,000 people died in this camp, many of which died towards the end of the war. As the Allies closed in on Auschwitz thousands of prisoners were shipped into Germany to Bergen-Belsen. There are mounds of mass graves each marked with the number that were buried by the British soldiers after their arrival.
The largest mass grave had 5,000 bodies in it and there were a few of them. You can read all the books and study it in school but that is nothing compared to actually experiencing a visit to an actual camp. Anne Frank died at the camp and is buried on site. They have a large memorial center playing different video's of actual footage of the terrible conditions documented by the British soldiers each day. It is an experience that is truly humbling, it's hard to imagine the human race cold do this to each other. May we never forget and never let something like this happen again.
Well thanks for letting me deviate from talking about Worthington Ag Parts. Tomorrow is a big day and hopefully I will have lots of pictures to post in my blog about the show! It's late here in Germany time to turn in. Thanks for reading.
Regards,
Mike Winter
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