When we talked about going to Germany, little did I know we would be visiting a concentration camp! What an experience.
It high school I was very fascinated with the Holocaust as a whole. I remember my teacher described all the killings in the camps of the Jews and such as the idea of taking out a can of spray and killing a swarm of ants. I thought it was a great way to describe the process because you don't see the ants as being worth keeping around. They are infesting your space and they are dirty and there are many of them and picking up a can of spray to kill them off doesn't mean much. It was an interesting analogy.
I have to tell you-there was little that surprised me about the camp. It was exactly as I imagined it would be. The only thing that caught me off guard was how peaceful and serene it was. It has been made into a memorial and it is actually quite a nice place aside from the rotting buildings and the facts that death plagues it.
The crematorium was an experience. Walking in there you stand in a room and it is merely a room. Until you look at the wall and realize you are standing in a room where they would pile all the dead bodies. Or the room where they have the ovens and they would hang the prisoners right there in front of them. Or the room where they told the prisoners they were going to take a shower, then gassed them in bulk.
Pretty sickening.
It high school I was very fascinated with the Holocaust as a whole. I remember my teacher described all the killings in the camps of the Jews and such as the idea of taking out a can of spray and killing a swarm of ants. I thought it was a great way to describe the process because you don't see the ants as being worth keeping around. They are infesting your space and they are dirty and there are many of them and picking up a can of spray to kill them off doesn't mean much. It was an interesting analogy.
I have to tell you-there was little that surprised me about the camp. It was exactly as I imagined it would be. The only thing that caught me off guard was how peaceful and serene it was. It has been made into a memorial and it is actually quite a nice place aside from the rotting buildings and the facts that death plagues it.
The crematorium was an experience. Walking in there you stand in a room and it is merely a room. Until you look at the wall and realize you are standing in a room where they would pile all the dead bodies. Or the room where they have the ovens and they would hang the prisoners right there in front of them. Or the room where they told the prisoners they were going to take a shower, then gassed them in bulk.
Pretty sickening.
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