Upon leaving Europe, we all completed a survey to determine our faves of the trip. Here you go ...

Overall Fave City 1) Munich 2) Vienna 3) Budapest

What You'll Remember Most 1) View from St. Stephens in Budapest 2) Beer Gardens 3) Dachau tied with Danube River in Budapest

Best Food 1) Vienna 2) Budapest

Best Coffee 1) Vienna 2) Budapest

Fave Tour 1) BMW (Munich) 2) St. Stephens Cathedral (Budapest)

Fave Business Visit 1) Zwack (Budapest) 2) IAC (Bratislava) tied with Zarf (Budapest)

Fave Hotel 1) Soffitel (Budapest) 2) Hotel Eden Wolff (Munich)

Best Shopping 1) Vienna 2) Munich

Fave History Lesson - Dachau (Munich)

Fave Culture 1) Munich 2) Vienna 3) Budapest

Nicest People 1) Munich 2) Vienna 3) Salzburg

Fave Attraction 1) Dachau (Munich) tied with St. Stephens (Vienna) 2) Vienna Gardens/Parks

Nicest View 1) Salzburg Fortification 2) View from top of St. Stephens Cathedral (Budapest) 3) Vienna Royal Palace

Best View at Night 1) Budapest 2) Vienna

Fave Activity 1) Beer Gardens 2) Concert in Vienna

Oddest Person/Place/Thing 1) Mummified hand at St. Stephens (Budapest) 2) Helga the Tour Guide tied with Gunther the Tour Guide

Place Most Likely to Find Jason Bourne 1) Budapest 2) Bratislava

Most Miles Walked 1) Salzburg 2) Vienna

Fave Tour Guide 1) Gerta 2) Katie

Person Most Likely to be Asleep 1) Ryan tied with Will 2) Joe tied with Jessica

Class Clown 1) Josh 2) Chris 3) Bern

Biggest Disappointment 1) Not being able to visit Eagle's Nest 2) Salzburg

Worst Moment 1) Being stuck in elevator (Salzburg - Chris, Joe, Rob, and Alex) 2) Tired and aching feet

Words cannot express the experience I and so many of my classmates had at Dachau. It was an experience that will never be forgotten. I knew this would be a difficult moment for me, and it was certainly the most profound visit on our tour of Europe. I believe that every human being should visit this place or one of the other concentration / extermination camps that claimed the lives of so many. I will give you some history of Dachau and provide a few photos, but as for how it affected me, I cannot describe in this small space the tremendous wave of emotions I felt walking this path of fear, death, and one of man's most inhumane moments in history. I have a fondness of history, and some events, such as the Holocaust, are better not forgotten, but remembered and learned from. The people of this world cannot endure another Holocaust.

Dachau is located ten miles northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria in southern Germany. Known as the first concentration camp established by the Nazi government (March 1933), Dachau became the prototype for other concentration camps and served as a training center for SS camp guards. On April 29, 1945, Dachau became the second concentration camp liberated by American/Allied forces, exposing the world to the reality of the Nazi movement and the brutality of their treatment of political and religious prisoners. Along with the 15,000 other concentration camps established in Germany and German occupied countries designed to systematically kill "subhuman creatures" (Adolf Hitler, 1933), Dachau has become known as one of history's most gruesome symbols of inhumanity.

More than 200,000 prisoners were housed at Dachau and its sub-camps from 1933 to 1945, of which at least - although the exact number will never be known - more than 38,000 died. Civilians were sentenced to the camp for "Sonderbehandlung" (a Nazi euphemism for "special treatment"), Soviet prisoners of war were executed by the thousands, and a great many died from medical experiments, malnutrition, and in death marches.

"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair." - Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor

"There are few words in this world to be understood in all languages by all people. One of them is Dachau." - Dietrich Mittler

The photos speak volumes ...