Notice that some of the poplar trees have beenplanted more recently after the original trees did not survive.The original rows of trees were planted by the inmates, probablyas a wind break. The trees were originally spaced the exact samedistance from each other. The precision layout of this camp servedas a model for later Nazi concentration camps. According to accountswritten by the Americans who liberated the camp, this was a dirtroad when the camp was in operation.