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It looks NOTHING like Dachau!!!


It looked more like a massive industrial power complex than a concentration camp. I've been to Dachau. I know it's not going to look the same after 70+ years but the camp IRL and the camp in this film are complete polar opposites. The layout isn't the same at all, there's no roll call square, no famous tall trees lining the entrance/famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate, no rows of barracks/huts, it's just all completely wrong.

I get that location shouldn't impact the telling of a really good story.... and it was a great story. But for heaven's sake, if you're going to set a story at Dachau, at least make it look like Dachau.

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