Concentration Camp Museum
Formerly known as the Stutthoff Concentration Camp, the location has now been converted to a museum so that people will never forget that dark time in Poland's history. In stark contrast to the local region, the old concentration camp is eerily intact. Apart from the forced labor factory, which may have absorbed some of the fighting in and around Sztutowo, it was as though the groundskeepers simply hadn't been around a while to tend to the lawn, hedges, and broken windows. The museum has been looted and vandalized, complete with graffiti, but nearly all of the buildings are in fairly decent shape. And it's very quiet here, with no wind, rhythmic roar of sea surf, or the squawk of gulls or crows. Everything is as it had been before the war, complete with guard towers (noted that they were not very useful as watchtowers, as they all face inward to the camp), wire fences, and even a train box car - just no people.


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