Eliete of Terroists

[FatAndFaithless]

I've physically been to both of the Auschwitz camps in Poland.  Are you claiming they were fuckin' summer camps or something?  I saw and touched the furnaces where they burned people.

As have I, and it was truly a pivotal moment in my life. It's one thing to learn about it in history class, it's another matter entirely to stand in the middle of Auschwitz-Birkenau and take in the true enormity of one part of the Nazi death engine surrounding you.
I cannot for a moment truly grasp what it must've been like to actually live through it. Few things fill me with cold rage like people who try and deny the whole thing ever happened.

The most striking thing to me was how...nice Auschwitz I looked.  I was so used to seeing the prefab stables, muddy ground, endless rows of barbed wire and chimneys...and then you get to Auschwitz I and it's cobbled/paved streets and multi-story red brick buildings.  It made it even more devastating that in a place that looked (compared to Auschwitz II) so "normal," that such atrocities were committed. It looked almost like its own little town, albeit with barbed wire and guard towers.