http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/a ... index.HTML

I had some question about which thread to post this in. It is certainly no joke; but it is something I think everyone should see.

Auschwitz virtual tour: http://remember.org/auschwitz/aus.php?f ... ize=s&id=1

Thank you for making me aware of this album. We have just won against a modern evil but we need to be reminded that there has been greater evils.

Thank you Slammr,

Never Again,

River

Slammr (imported) wrote: Sat May 07, 2011 5:12 pm http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/a ... index.HTML

I had some question about which thread to post this in. It is certainly no joke; but it is something I think everyone should see.

Auschwitz virtual tour: http://remember.org/auschwitz/aus.php?f ... ize=s&id=1

My god, the man who shot the photos of the virtual tour is an old friend from 30 years ago. I viewed his portfolio back then. The horror of the many photos not published is unspeakable. I saw his photo that inadvertently reflected his own image in a glass pane - I've never seen a man in such pain. Never ever again. Thank you Slammr for bringing this out.

The Nazis were able to murder so many people because they had numerous locations all over Europe:

Austria had Mauthausen et al

Belgium had Breendonck "

Estonia had Klooga "

Finland had Kangasjarvi "

France had Brens "

Germany had Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dacau and many more

Poland had Auschwitz etc

There were camps in Holland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia and Yugoslavia

Remember too: the French and Poles were all too happy to turn over their Jewish Population whereas Mussolini kept the Italian Jews away from Hitler and the Dutch and Danes commonly resisted.

Oh, and of course America refused immigration and sent the boats back.

WHO, never again?

Moi

I had a chance to visit Buchenwald about two years ago. I was overwhelmed by what I saw there, and it WASN'T a death camp. I can only imagine how much more emotional it would have been to visit one of those camps with the ovens.

Each of these camps had something written on the gate. At Buchenwald it was "you get what you deserve", which is much more sinister than "work makes you free."

It wasn't only what the Germans did during World War II that makes these places horrible, it's also what the Soviets did AFTER the war. At Buchenwald if you walk down to the low end of the camp and walk into the forest you are surrounded by shallow, rectangular depressions in the ground. These are graves of political enemies. Each grave is marked by a stainless steel marker reading "Unknown", in German, with a number assigned to the marker.

I think everyone in the world should visit one of these camps just so they can see just how inhuman we humans can be.

The Germans were also very good at psychological warfare/manipulation. When you came on the train to Buchenwald, you were unloaded on a platform that was seemingly out in the middle of the forest. You couldn't see anything from the platform. You were then marched on a short road, and once your rounded a corner about a 1/8th of mile later, you got your first view of the camp.

I can't imagine what it would have been like to be a "guest" of the Germans at that point.

A visit to one of these places brings up emotion that I don't think any words can quite describe.

--LT