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I don’t recognize that building, what is it?
very likely the entrance to a KZ(Auschwitz)
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It’s Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz was comprised of three separate camps, this was the death camp. That railway line was where they brought people in to be gassed.
It is a really insane place to visit if you ever get the chance. Here are the barracks:
Those front few are reconstructions. They were wooden and were burnt down, but they had brick chimneys. All those chimneys you can see stretching into the distance were buildings like this. All of them were filled with people in line to be exterminated. The gas chambers and crematoria could not cope with the number of people.
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Holy shit, I don’t think I’ve ever seen just how many buildings would have been there. Seeing the chimneys stretched out like that is blood curdling.
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1.1 million people were killed at Auschwitz alone. This field of chimneys was one of the things that shook me when I went there, but there’s a lot else. Definitely recommend visiting if you are nearby, it’s not pleasant but it’s an experience worth having.
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Its on my list for whenever I make it to Poland. I’m certainly on the side of “this is an incredibly important place to see once in your life” and will be making a plan to go when we go to Europe
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What the actual fuck. Crazy. I need to visit east europe as thats where my dad’s from and I absolutely have to see this.
This applies to the Holocaust museums in Jerusalem and D.C. as well. Both are phenomenally well done and make you feel the real human suffering and loss to your core. I’m tearing up just thinking about my visits to those two museums. Bawled my eyes at in the Jerusalem museum when they showed the children’s shoes.
America would definitely be facing massive internal resistance to tear down those barracks, Confederate statues are far less repulsive.
It will be totally shocking when we learn there’s a collector in Texas that has one of the salvaged barracks on his property because that’s how much he hates the Nazis.
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Anyone been to Dachau?
Going to Munich in early May and feel like I should go there even though I know it won’t be a fun time.
Went as part of TopDeck/backpackers trip in 2013 or so.
Very eye opening on what otherwise was a fairly basic vanilla trip for two weeks with drinking seeing the tourist traps etc.
We had a couple girls on the trip who were taking the “not particularly appropriate” photos. They were 18-20ish and pretty brainless the whole time (we stayed at a castle in Germany, they asked if that was the Hogwarts castle)*. So pretty brainless.
It’s definitely a full day trip, not “oh let’s spend two hours here” kind of trip. And I wouldn’t plan on being happy the next 12hrs afterwards either. But I’d strongly recommend doing it.
*Once we heard that story me and another guy on the trip kept playing the Harry Potter theme quietly while walking near them to spark a reaction. We are pieces of shit.
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It won’t be a fun time and you absolutely should go. I can’t stress enough how impactful seeing these places in person can be.
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Went to a Cambodian genocide museum last year in the middle of a lads rugby trip. Was equally sobering. I set pretty clear expectations up front, but most of the guys still were not ready.
I went to Dachau on the same European trip as I went to Auschwitz, this is like 15 years ago now. The exhibit is pretty much just the camp grounds and buildings with a whole bunch of explanatory signs, and it was a work camp rather than a death camp, so it doesn’t connect you with the scale of the Holocaust in the way Auschwitz does. It is still very sobering, and is worthwhile to visit, but for me at least it wasn’t as mind-shattering as Auschwitz was.
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Agree with ChrisV here. I have been to Bergen-Belsen and Sachsenhausen. While they are obviously very sad and moving places, Auschwitz is just on another level the way it impacts you.
I have never been to Dachau though.
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Well, I assume none of those bros are ever going to let you be involved in any bachelor party planning.
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That DC museum is haunting. That pile of shoes man.
Several things in that place cut through the history and facts and make you step back and really realize that millions of people died People like you and me. Just kidnapped and gassed and burned.
Haven’t been to Eastern Europe but I’m sure it’s the same feeling.
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Unsurprising. I remember people taking selfies in the gas chambers in Sachsenhausen when I visited in 2016.
I missed out on Auschwitz when I visited Krakow due to food poisoning.