Let me start by just saying that those nazis were pretty damn f*cked up back in the war days.
Earlier we visited Chernobyl, which caused a lot of destruction. That was still "easy" to handle, as it was an accident. But today, visiting Auschwitz concentration camp, it's way different. This was no accident, and there were millions of people killed.
Today, Auschwitz is a museum and more than 2 million people visit it every year. You'll get a tour guide, who takes you around Auschwitz and Birkenau and tells you stories behind the photos and buildings along the way. And it is tough, because even though you can understand what the tour guide is saying, you can't quite grasp that it has actually happened. You try to imagine what it was like, but yet it seems impossible because the things they did was beyond anyone's comprehension. I couldn't even make up the ways nazis killed their innocent victims, and that makes it even more difficult to understand that someone has once actually done it.
I won't go to any details about the stories there, but you can get the image when I say that they transported more than 1 000 000 people just to this concentration camp to their deaths. How someone could do it, I have no idea. It's just so horrible and cruel that at some point you feel that has this actually happened? But it has and the evidence is right there. I'm glad that people can visit the site today to understand and learn the history behind those barbed wires.
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| The ruins of Birkenau gas chamber |
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| Unloading zone for people coming to their deaths |
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| Only a handful people were successful escaping Auschwitz |
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| Wall of death... |
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