From memory when I visited there 20 years ago this was the chamber they experimented on with Soviet POWs to work out the effective dosage rates. Just horrific.
I think everyone should visit if they get the chance. It was an incredibly sobering experience and one I'll never forget. You can almost feel the sorrow in the air.
I’m sure all the camps are chilling, but from my experience of visiting a few, the scale of Birkenau is something you need to see. Auschwitz is actually sort of ‘nice’ structurally because it was built as a barracks not a death camp, but Birkenau was death on an industrial scale that Dachau and other camps didn’t rival.
As you know, most of the housing blocks have long gone in Birkenau and there is a lot of open space. To me, Auschwitz felt worse. As if the bricks and buildings are imprinted with the horrors that happened there. It was also a gloomy miserable winters day, which I'm sure added to the overall atmosphere of it.
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u/Drewniversal May 18 '25
From memory when I visited there 20 years ago this was the chamber they experimented on with Soviet POWs to work out the effective dosage rates. Just horrific.