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Jim Tones
Jim Tones
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Edited Dec 19, 2009, 12:07
Re: When does a sick joke become a holy relic?
Dec 19, 2009, 12:05
drewbhoy wrote:
It's a very weird feeling walking round that place, it's almost as if the silence was deafening. Hearing what the guide had to say during the second visit, two winters ago, was sickening. It was freezing and snowing, we the 'tourists' were all wrapped up in warm clothes. For the unfortunates all those years ago, they wore rags and starved on a good day. A sobering thought so places like this should be preserved but do many of humankind, especially those in power, take any notice? Somehow, sadly I think not!


The one thing that struck me about visiting the Dachau site, was that there were no birds flying around, no wildlife at all really.
As you said, the 'stillness' was very odd indeed, eventhough you do realise the past events of the place when you are walking around etc.

I have no jewish or eastern european heritage, but I visited Dachau, as I was once told by an elderly jewish bloke a few years before, that if I was ever within 50 miles of one of the Camps, that I should pay a visit and to whisper the words-"never again" -whilst I was in the grounds.
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