Saddest Place You Have Visited?

[Badger]

Haven't been to Auschwitz but I've been to Dachau and Sachsenhausen which I imagine are very similar, very sad places indeed.

 

[mikeyjh]

India, and in particular Delhi - The extreme poverty alongside the obvious wealth is heartbreaking and it's here and now, thousands of people living, eating, shitting and sleeping by the street is scandalous. Hurts every time.

 

[Braders]

Ypres - seeing all the memorials to fallen soldiers is moving

Agreed

 

[Norman Potting]

Many a true word spoken in jest,seeing the small memorial with the British,Canadian,French and Merchant navy flags always strikes a sad note when driving past.Total waste of many young mens lives.It may not rank along side some of the shockingly sad places mentioned but each soldier/sailor who died was somebody's son.

I remember spending a few days in Dieppe a while ago (off topic but a very nice town to visit). There was quite a lot dotted around to commemorate the raid, including a nice floral rendition of the Canadian flag beneath the castle in a small memorial garden. Along the "prom" was a small plaque commemorating the death of the first two US soldiers to die in action in Europe - I believe they were seconded to the Canadian Army.

Having read a book about the raid it appears that the actually point of it still uncertain. Dieppe was apparently of no particular strategic importance and the outcomes of such an action as a "fact find" for D-day seem tenuous.