PhotoHunt - Sad

I know the pictures don't look sad, but there was a lot of sadness and horror portrayed within the building. La Coupole is just outside Saint-Omer where I recently went on a day trip. The website has the following to say about it:

Exceptional site, our museum La Coupole is 5 km far from Saint-Omer. Gigantic underground bunker designed by the Nazis, in 1943-1944, to launch the V2 rockets, our museum is today rehabilitated to be a History and Remembrance Center.

Unique by its location and its architecture, La Coupole is gathering historical events that took place in Saint-Omer calling to mind all what happened in this “dark years”.

Hundred of audiovisual documentaries will enable you to discover major themes that belong to all European people in La coupole near Saint-Omer. Do not hesitate to come and relive through the period of 1939 to 1945:

* The Occupation of 1940-1944 in the North of France
* The total war (1939-1945): the German secret weapons
* The "Cold War" and the conquest of space.

One of the temporary exhibitions housed within in La Coupole was entitled "Deportation and genocide, a European tragedy":

1. Introduction. The concentration camp system in Germany (1933-1939). Punish, terrorize and "re-educate".
2. The war and the onset of violence (1939-1941). Punish exploit and eliminate.
3. The genocide of Jews and Gypsies. Exterminate.
4. The changes in the Nazi concentration camp system (1942-1944). Exterminate through work.
5. The collapse and discovery of the Nazi concentration camp system (January-May 1945).
6. Death Toll. Memorial to those executed in and deported from Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
   

To say the pictures were harrowing is a bit of an understatement and one of the people I visited with said they were the most horrific pictures he had seen outside the French National Army Museum.

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