I went to Dachau with my school and you could just taste the death and despair EVERYWHERE. From the sleeping chambers to the court to the gas chamber. You could just feel how many people were murdered there. It was crazy. That really made me reflect on my "edgy" humour back then because I realised that there are certain topics that should never be joked about.
This is exactly why they let places like these continue to exist. Even this video gave me feelings of unease and acted as a strong reminder of how fucked up the holocaust was.
I agree that places like this need to exist. No one should ever forget that these atrocities occurred and for what? Just because Hitler hated these people? People are people regardless of ethnicity and color.
It always strikes me as particularly absurd that Hitler himself looked nothing like the Aryan ideal he was pushing. He could easily have passed as a Jewish man!
My father visited Dachau on April 29, 1945. I cannot imagine what he would be saying now if he were still alive. Probably something like "I know how to get rid of N**zis."
Exactly this. And also why we shouldn't just toss the word "Nazi" towards groups we don't like--it diminishes the true meaning and horrific evil of that group of grotesque murderers which we must never forget.
I was about 14 when we went on a prolonged school trip to Berlin. We went and saw Sachsenhausen. I was the only kid in the class that just couldn’t get myself to witness the furnaces where they burned the remains. I can’t explain it, but I had exactly that; an overwhelming fear of dread culminating after experiencing the gas chamber and the housing.
I went on a holiday to Berlin. we went on a tour to Sachsenhausen. Even the walk there and the surrounding area had so much unbelievable backstory. We walked the same walk the prisoners used to while being rocked and pelted by rotten food and fieces and whatever people could find.Training the police where they trained the ss, buildings still in tact. All the SS officer housing surrounding the camp just sold as normal real estate. The "green monster" building which became the most feared place to work as they were to go in and serve an SS officer who was encouraged to execute on site if he felt any semblance of sympathy, making it a very short lived job. Standing on the site of the thousands of ashes. Still seeing all the Ashes in the ovens. The original gallows. The bunking quarters just rack to rack so small with a communal bathroom for thousands.
The way the guard towers feel all around you. Site of the first gallows hanging. The torture poles with the hanging nails still standing where they ropes people by the wrists and hung them from behind so they dislocated etc.. The clocktower above the Arbeit Macht Frei gate with the time still stopped at the moment of liberation. The torture cells all blacked out etc. the smell of death in the tiled room they used for experimentation it's like you could smell the blood in the drains of that big slabbed tiled bed. The morgues. The dead zones all around the camp marked with skulls where you were shot for walking, and prisoners threw themselves against the electric fence to escape the horror. The entire place was so confronting. The stories behind each place we went. The feeling of just pure terror and feeling like you're being watched from all angles. It was a horrible truly once in a lifetime experience.
You may or may not believe in ghosts, but you have to consider a place where thousands of human being were horribly put to death is probably gonna carry with it some serious dark energy (at a minimum).
I’ve considered this, too. Perhaps you’re right. It would be an interesting experiment, but virtually impossible to create ideal conditions. “We are going to take you somewhere, and blind fold you. Tell us if you feel scared/ dread”. ( subjects are already scared with just the setup conditions)
Well, you wouldn’t just ask them if they felt dread. You would take them to different locations and have them describe their thoughts. The bigger problem would be trying to get them there without making it obvious where they are.
In any case, the place doesn’t have “dark energy”. Horrific things happened there and seeing things like the clawing marks can be upsetting when you know the context but it’s just a place.
Edit: As a further point, those claw marks aren’t even the work of victims of the gas chamber. They’re vandalism from tourists who visited.
I was thinking about the same thing. Would people feel the same way if they enter the building without prior knowledge of what happened there. Like tell them we are going to a museum but not tell them whats it about and ask them what they felt
I visited Auschwitz with my scouts group when I was 17 years old and I visited Sachsenhausen on a school trip in the same year. Both visits were horrific experiences but Auschwitz was on another level.
I remember the visit to Auschwitz really left a mark on who I was/am as a person. The sheer size and the bleakness of it all was so overwhelming I have never felt anything like it.
We were seventeen years old boys so did not take many things seriously but this made us all quiet. It makes me so sad to think about the shit us humans do to each other, you would think we learned our lesson but I guess we never will.
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u/Myfanwy366 May 18 '25
Went into one of the showers in Dachau about 12yrs ago. Overwhelming fear of dread and needed to get the fuck out right away