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Default The Concentration Camps - 03-05-2005, 07:03 PM

I dont know how many of you have seen any of the concentration camps or may even live close to one. I do know that the last time i was in Germany I was able to visit the Dachau Concentration Camp. It's one of those things that you have to see to really comprehend the atrocities. Its quite a mournful tour no matter where or who you are.

Just thought this would be a good historical post.

Anyone else have any other personal input on their visitations?


  
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Default 03-07-2005, 02:01 AM

i went to auschwitz-birkenau in 2001 when i was 15 or so

very powerful, you could still feel the death, there were specks of bone in the dirt still

the day started out rainy and was sunny by the time we were done with the tour

it was very hard to believe that i was in the actual place were so many horrible things happened, but it was very powerful-- thats the only way i could describe it

i think holocaust deniers should go there-- itll be sure to make them reconsider what they have to say about the holocaust
  
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Default 03-07-2005, 04:06 PM

I have been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. It is very interesting, and it does give more ideas and feelings of what happened. I am not very interested in the Holocaust, though. That and I am not a very emotional person (mental retardation?), so it did not affect me very much.
  
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Default 03-07-2005, 05:21 PM

Like i said i have only been to Dachau thus far, and not the holocaust museum, however, i can only say from my personal experience that you have to actually go to one, a larger one, say Auchwitz or Dachau to really see what happened and understand the near enilation of an entire race over western Europe.

Im not very emotional in that sense either, and far from metally retarded. But it was definately a moving experience to go inside the museum at Dachau, especially the crematory. The smell still lingers there, though not strong enough to invoke nausea, but enough to be noticable. You can see pictures, hear about from others, and read about in text books and online, but none of these nearly compair to actually visiting one of these sites


  
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Default 03-07-2005, 07:12 PM

Like you said you need to be there to truly be at awe at the horror. I remember back in my old middle school we had two Holocaust survivors come in, and tell from what I though to be a horrifying, and gut wrenching story of how they lost everything they had, their friends, their homes, their families, and to walk out of the gym and hear these little fuckwads say shit like "who cares it was 60 years ago" or "to bad they made it, had to waste 2 hours of my life."
  
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Default 03-07-2005, 09:47 PM

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Default 03-07-2005, 10:24 PM

[quote="$p!k3":22541]Like you said you need to be there to truly be at awe at the horror. I remember back in my old middle school we had two Holocaust survivors come in, and tell from what I though to be a horrifying, and gut wrenching story of how they lost everything they had, their friends, their homes, their families, and to walk out of the gym and hear these little fuckwads say shit like "who cares it was 60 years ago" or "to bad they made it, had to waste 2 hours of my life."[/quote:22541]

I actually would have punched both of those kids in the face If I had heard that, and I'm dead serious....
  
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Default 03-07-2005, 10:52 PM

[quote="$p!k3":49389]Like you said you need to be there to truly be at awe at the horror. I remember back in my old middle school we had two Holocaust survivors come in, and tell from what I though to be a horrifying, and gut wrenching story of how they lost everything they had, their friends, their homes, their families, and to walk out of the gym and hear these little fuckwads say shit like "who cares it was 60 years ago" or "to bad they made it, had to waste 2 hours of my life."[/quote:49389]

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Default 03-08-2005, 10:45 AM

Some pukes just dont get it, too many people died in that war, either fighting or as a genocide. For all we know, if it werent for those ppl who died, they might be speaking German, Pledging Alligiance to the Swastika and doing Heil Hitlers instead of Hail Marys

People like that burn me up mad:


  
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