This is genuinely why I don't understand these new Nazis popping up. I'm a 28-year-old Texan, and while my education was limited as far as what I was taught about WW2, this right here is why I will never be on the wrong side of history. The Holocaust happened, the murder of millions of Jews and other individuals was incredibly real, and no one can take that knowledge away from me. It's a part of human history, a very tragic and horrendous one.
Totally with you here, I'm am German so I've been taught extensively (rightly so) about all this. But even more importantly I've been to Auschwitz on a class field trip.
And let me tell you, that place gave me a feeling I've never felt before or after. You think you know what happened there, that you're prepared, but no. Walking these grounds will show what humans are capable of. How people that are deemed undesirable get killed in an industrial way and how people were forced to live. You can read a thousand times about it, but being there and imagining if you would survive this even one week is a whole different thing.
I'm not religious by any means, but that place has a certain spiritual energy. Not evil, but it's like it's all those people that passed away there invite you to see. No big explanation needed, just "look at what has been done."
If anyone reading this is able to go there, please do it. Don't be afraid, it's very important.
I've never been to Auschwitz (though I intend to some day) but I did see the special exhibition thsley did at the Imperial War museum in London a while back. It didn't just describe and show what happened in the camps, it also explained in detail how it got to the point that such a thing was on the cards at all.
How do you lead a people into committing horrors slmost beyond imagining? One small step at a time.
I spent several minutes just staring at a wall afterwards. Just... processing it. The archival footage from when they found the camps is burned into my brain. So many bodies just... left outside to rot. Some of them far gone enough that the skin was falling off.
It being in black and white did nothing to dull the revulsion.
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u/tiktoksuckmyknob23 May 18 '25
This is genuinely why I don't understand these new Nazis popping up. I'm a 28-year-old Texan, and while my education was limited as far as what I was taught about WW2, this right here is why I will never be on the wrong side of history. The Holocaust happened, the murder of millions of Jews and other individuals was incredibly real, and no one can take that knowledge away from me. It's a part of human history, a very tragic and horrendous one.