Auschwitz

[Rasiak-9-]

I've been - and it just didn't quite sink in.

 

Its hard to imagine what happened when the grass is green and the birds are singing etc.

 

I don't think anyone can quite get their head around what happened without seeing it

[oxfordshire_saint]

Go to Mauthausen, in Austria, too if you get the chance.

 

There they have the "stairs of death" which were some steps leading to the top of a quarry. The prisoners had to carry large rocks up the steps, if they fell backwards they would usually die and take some others out with them, but if they made it to the top they would be forced to jump to their death in the quarry.

 

http://remember.org/camps/mauthausen/mau-stairs.html

 

They also did various medical experiments on the prisoners or sometimes just threw them on the electric fence there.

 

Truly evil.

[action man]

I am going to Poland next month for a week and I have 2 days booked up at Auschwitz, has anyone been before, what can I expect, and is there much to do there?

 

Also not sure about where to stay locally, and decent B&B's close?

 

My business friend is there now, it's his fifth time to the camp, I guess it must be interesting.

 

Tips please.

 

went there 3 weeks ago while on a stag weekend in krakow,it really is an eerie place but well worth the visitit cost us around £30 for the trip from krakow that was an hour long drive and entry into auschwitz then on to birkenau .stay in krakow great base with fabulous night life p s if you go to the irish bar in krakow theres a signed saints shirt in a glass case

[1976_Child]

200 years of slavery might rank up along side it?

 

yeah, but at least we saw the error of our ways and led the world away from slavery. Where was the German equivalent of the Clapham Sect?

 

Well, I'll give them Herr Schindler but no one else stood up and tried to stop it.

[tonibell]

try this link looks right up your street Dog

http://israelinsider.ning.com/profiles/blogs/beer-strippers-auschwitz-uk

[miserableoldgit]

200 years of slavery might rank up along side it?

The difference is that slavery was a legal, acceptable (at the time) activity. I am not sure that mass murdering 6M Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and disabled people etc, on an industrial scale is the same. Don`t forget, before we beat ourselves up again, the part that Wilberforce and the Royal Navy played in doing away with the Slave Trade.

[Baj]

I really hope I get to visit Auschwitz some day. Me and the missus went to Dachau last month, the first camp established on german soil, and that was harrowing enough.

 

Again, I was dry eyes until we got to the gas chamber and saw the "Bruasebad" (Sprinker Shower/bath) above the door... yeah right...

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11852022&l=76f5948f97&id=537545270

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11851999&l=b2b3154e73&id=537545270

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=11852027&l=2ac1235a1f&id=537545270

[Frank's cousin]

Not been to Auschwitz, but have been to Dachau... emotionally draining and quite harrowing. The impact it has on you is unforgettable. When I was there there were a party of German school kids about 12-14 yearolds - first time ever i have seen a school trip wher NO ONE was larking about - they were just emotionally drained. The horrors of this part of the German history are taught in schools in detail there. I think its extremely important that these camps remain as reminders to what can happen when racist politicians become allpowerful.

 

I know the Palistinian situation is very complex, but sometimes I ask the question, that surely if there is one population that might want to do anything they could to avoid segreation and displacement of a race or religion it would be the Israelis given what they have suuffered, yet their politicos seem quite hard line and less inclined to find a workable solution than I would expect... difficult issues, but surely its about time this situation was resolved?

[Dog]

 

Are they standard SS underpants?

[Baj]

jawohl!

[Dog]

jawohl!

 

 

:supz:

 

You don't look very sad in any pictures of the death camp, infact you seem to be laughing in all of them.

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I know the Palistinian situation is very complex' date=' but sometimes I ask the question, that surely if there is one population that might want to do anything they could to avoid segreation and displacement of a race or religion it would be the Israelis given what they have suuffered, yet their politicos seem quite hard line and less inclined to find a workable solution than I would expect... difficult issues, but surely its about time this situation was resolved?[/quote']

 

It was clear(c.1930) before Isreal would once more be made a Jewish State the Arabs would never accept it and as a consequence would always be at 'war' with it, in hindsight perhaps Madagascar would have been the better option.

[Baj]

:supz:

 

You don't look very sad in any pictures of the death camp, infact you seem to be laughing in all of them.

Everyone else was laughing, it seemed rude not to join in

[Dog]

Everyone else was laughing, it seemed rude not to join in