Main Gate Auschwitz
@JWMILLER (3275)
Westmoreland, Tennessee
November 2, 2020 12:49pm CST
I took the picture abve on my second trip to Auschwitz. The site was originally an undistinguished army post. When it became a Nazi death camp, the Great Lie of such camps was put above the entrance, "Arbeit Macht Frei", meaning "Work Brings Freedom". The people who were sent there could only work themselves to death or finally die from illness or some other death camp cause.
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@sallypup (60976)
• Centralia, Washington
2 Nov 20
I am not sure I have the ability to walk in such a place. It's important to know that such an atrocity happened. The dear spirits would overwhelm me. I went to Custer's Last Stand battlefield once and could barely get out of there. I had no idea that the sorrow would grab me the way it did.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
3 Nov 20
@marguicha @sallypup do you see them or feel the weight of energy there? do you experience it in other places, too?
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@sallypup (60976)
• Centralia, Washington
3 Nov 20
@hereandthere An overwhelming sense of great loss and sorrow came over me. I think it was a weight of energy as you say. For a day or so I felt not like myself; like a great dark blanket had come over me.
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@marguicha (222809)
• Chile
2 Nov 20
@Mike197602 History is still too menacing. And horror is too near
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@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
2 Nov 20
About the sign...it got stolen a couple of years ago and was restored
It got cut up into pieces then recovered...there's a story behind the theft.
It got cut up into pieces then recovered...there's a story behind the theft.2 people like this
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
3 Nov 20
@Mike197602 why would they steal it? where did they find it?
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@snowy22315 (180399)
• United States
2 Nov 20
I have been to the holocaust museum in DC...that was upsetting enough. It would be fascinating to travel toAuschwitz though where so many met their end.
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@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
2 Nov 20
I'd suggest Majdanek rather than Auschwitz.
Auschwitz is not well managed in any way it's like a money making place...just my opinion.
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
2 Nov 20
I would like to visit that hopefully one day. It's so awful to think about the evil atrocities that went on there.
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@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
2 Nov 20
I've been there more than once.
I view it in 2 ways...what happened and how it is now managed.
What happened was beyond terrible...going there knowing quite a bit about what hapened you'd already maybe know the layout and the differences in the camps as it wasn't one camp.
Going there as a tourist knowing nearly nothing wasn't good in my experience...charge you for this and that and the tours are hit and miss depending on the guide.
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@RebeccasFarm (89831)
• Arvada, Colorado
27 Nov 20
Thank you for sharing this. It is a great horror.
@Nakitakona (56486)
• Philippines
3 Nov 20
I'm glad to know this. This updates my insufficient knowledge about other country's history. Thanks.
