I never really know what to do at places like this. It seems horribly disrespectful to use a camera and not just look and listen. So, I compromise and take a very few basic shots.
Auschwitz and Birkenau were every bit as horrible and intense as I expected. Pure, flat out, hateful killing factories. Psychotic in the intensity and efficiency. I don't mind mean people, and I am often one, but the hate stuff has to go.
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| Infamous watchtower at Birkenau. This place was built entirely and exclusive for extermination with 4 huge gas chamber and crematoriums. |
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| Birkenau |
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| Auschwitz |
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| Firing squad wall at Building 11 at Auschwitz, the one where they had experimental cells for starvation death, medical experiment death, suffocation death. The basement, or dungeon, holds about 50 people yet the daily average was 900. Story has it that this wall saw the execution by firing squad of more than 300,000 people in 4 years. |
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Main gate at Auschwitz promising that "work will make you free"
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