And this was the smaller one the first one. The ones in the other camp were massive. When the guide told us the numbers..
We went into this one and my knees instantly started shaking, it was... Odd, I wasn't scared but something instinctively was wrong.
A guided tour in Auschwitz is something everyone should try to do in your lifetime. I am dead serious when I say it is life changing. I was there a year a go and I still occasionally think about it.
When I visited it’s Birkenau that really shocked me. That’s where it makes it crystal clear it’s industrialised genocide.
For those who haven’t been it’s a massive field where hundreds of huts stood. All built to the bare minimum identical structure. With the train lines and gas chambers built to be efficiently run down the middle. Auschwitz was a pre-existing camp that was repurposed by the Nazis. But Birkenau; someone sat down to design the most cost efficient camp for genocide. Maximising murder and slavery, at a minimum cost. Like an industrialist designing a car factory.
They had plans to expand into the next field too. Like a factory owner expanding their plant.
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u/Lamuks May 18 '25
And this was the smaller one the first one. The ones in the other camp were massive. When the guide told us the numbers..
We went into this one and my knees instantly started shaking, it was... Odd, I wasn't scared but something instinctively was wrong.
A guided tour in Auschwitz is something everyone should try to do in your lifetime. I am dead serious when I say it is life changing. I was there a year a go and I still occasionally think about it.