Auschwitz

[Evo]

Yo guys, i've just come back from a History trip with my college to Berlin and Krakov. Had a great time, apart from all the bus rides everywhere argh!

On-topic though, on Sunday during out time in Krakov we vistited Auschwitz-Berkenau, and oh man, it was heavy there guys. During our tour of Auschwitz we went through a room with glass classes of shoes taken from the victims, my mate pointed out one small shoe, a young child's shoe and that nearly broke me, i'll admit it, i nearly was crying in that place. We also went into the gas chambers at Auschwitz which was tough, the feeling in the air was indescribable apart from bloody well unpleasent. After the tour of Auschwitz we went to Berkenau, it was so desolate there, the train tracks and the main gates with most of the buildings destroyed it was otherworldly. It struck me that the people that committed these barbaric, evil crimes thought what they were doing was right, evidenced in the series about Auschwitz a couple months back on TV, they were committed to killing the Jews.

While in Berlin we visited Sachsenhausen (sp?) a Concentration Camp (not Death Camp) that was also a sombering place, it helped kinda prepare us for Auschwitz, but still the feeling in the air at those places was not at all nice.

Sorry if this i a depressing post, i just had to share it with you guys, anyone else been to one of these places or similiar?

 

[Lemonking]

Il feel ya I went to Hadama a place where they killed 1.4 million disabled people/or classified as disabled it sucks I am sometimes ashamed of the german blood in me.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Same as you, did you happen to see the cells with the scratches on the wall? where they prisoners were clawing at the walls in panic, and theres still nail fragments in some of them. Oh and outside that wall with all the bullet holes in the wood where the firing squad would 'take aim'. I did it for my history trip too, its hard, especially with myself having some jewish blood. But it helped me appreciate how bad it was, something some people can't grasp just from books.

edit: Lemon you shouldn't be ashamed, it was a long time ago and a group of horrible people, and we know the German people are disgusted by it. its not fair to blame anything on the german blood of today.

 

[Evo]

It made me so angry, i i'd seen a Nazi/neo-Nazi i would probably have kicked the living sh!t out of them over and over again. Bastards

 

[Evo]

Yeah, Cell Block 11, some sick twisted stuff they put people thorugh down their, the standing cells shudders

 

[Insano]

It made me so angry, i i'd seen a Nazi/neo-Nazi i would probably have kicked the living sh!t out of them over and over again. Bastards

If we learned one thing from WW2, then it's that violence solves nothing

 

[Lemonking]

It made me so angry, i i'd seen a Nazi/neo-Nazi i would probably have kicked the living sh!t out of them over and over again. Bastards

you never see a Nazi alone they would prolly beaten the shit outta you first:x

 

[Evo]

If we learned one thing from WW2, then it's that violence solves nothing

you never see a Nazi alone they would prolly beaten the shit outta you first:x

Yeah, i know that when i sit back and look back on my trip, but at that moment in time it was how i felt