You’ll love it. They all visit the graveyards tomorrow. Bank holiday
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Top spot. Try get to the Harry Potter cafe bar
Bring me home some Oscypek.
The Leaky Cauldron
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What’s the polish for Adam English, just in case I need it?
Adam Angielski
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Spier dalla pizda.
Auschwitz today. Took a photo of the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign/gate but didn’t take another one after that. Barely even spoke tbh. It’s well worth visiting but it’s not an easy few hours
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Did you see birkenau as well? It’s tough going, but everyone should see it. Humanity’s darkest moment.
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I did yeah. Awful spot. Just grim.
Feeling a depressed?
Why not visit Auschwhitz.
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I think that’s pretty much most people’s reaction to the place.
Did you do the salt mines?
And did you get me my smoked cheese?
Haven’t been to Auschwitz but that was my reaction to Dachau, that and there were suburban houses (that must have been there in the 30s) right up against it.
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I think I kinda went into shock and denial after visiting austwitz… I couldn’t comprehend how one group of humans could do such things to fellow humans
It;s very easy to comprehend. Within every human being lurks a monster. An ocean of hate filled propaganda unleashes monsters.
It genuinely baffles me how anybody can go to a death camp and come away as a Trump supporter or a supporter of Israel or Russia for that matter.
It’s like these people are faced with the reality of what propaganda does and then decide to give a two fingers to the lessons of history and embrace the same thing that led to the Holocaust.
It’s genuinely bizarre and deeply unsettling.
Fucks sake Sid. You drag the nazis into everything… even the holocaust now…
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Just give it a rest ffs
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No.
You’re underestimating human psychology…
I imagine it’s not easy for everyone to comprehend something so horrific… it’s like the brain goes into shock and refuses to believe something
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Auschwitz is there now to make people believe the horrific deeds humans are capable of. To demonstrate it plainly. If people refuse to believe it and turn around and support ethno-nationalist insanity - which is what Nazism was and is - they’d be better off not going in the first place.
Human beings are not logical beings. There is no logic to somebody like Antoinette Keegan suffering grave injustice and fighting for years to get some sort of justice and then turning around and embracing Nazis.
The one thing that human beings should know about themselves is that a monster lurks within all of us - particularly men - and given the wrong circumstances that monster has the potential to consume any of us.
I worry about the lessons a lot of people take from Auschwitz, I really do. It’s almost like Auschwitz has become a bucket list holiday destination for a lot of people…“ooh, Auschwitz, done that”…and the lessons about history it should teach a person are simply not on the agenda of many tourists.
I haven’t been to Auschwitz. I’ve been to Dachau which was not an extermination camp but that was when I was 10. I have two main memories of it. A Jewish couple ashen faced on a bus from the S-Bahn station to the camp, and tearing my favourite jumper asunder on the barbed wire.
I’ve been meaning to watch the documentary Shoah for years. It’s on my laptop here but I’ve never quite been able to bring myself to watch it.
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