mental prep, catastrophe, coping, moving on - Kraków, Poland + Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oct. 2023)

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I went on a guided tour of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (listed as an UNESCO World Heritage site) on my last day in Kraków.
**View the two minutes of footage between 5:53 and 7:52 at your own discretion.**
The text at the beginning of this video reads as follows:
"*sensitive content warning*
in this episode, i go to auschwitz-birkenau, the largest of all nazi concentration camps.
it is located in poland just outside kraków.
the holocaust was a tragic loss of innocent human life born from an incomprehensible hatred for followers of the jewish faith as well as other minority groups (like gypsies).
it’s even crazier to think this happened less than 100 years ago.
the nazis tried to hide the evidence of their atrocities and attempted to destroy these camps at the end of the war.
this video shows some of what remains.
the official tour guides visitors around the camp where so many were held hostage, mistreated, and killed while sharing information and stories from the holocaust.
roughly 1.5 million had their lives taken from them at this camp alone.
there is a very heavy and somber energy here that affects visitors in a different way than a history book."
10/11-10/12/23
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@bigbranch1 Месяц назад

Heavy stuff......have a good journey and God Bless.

@goldilocks_walks Месяц назад

very much so, I’m still processing it all. Thank you ❤️

@konradlewandowski23 Месяц назад

A small correction: this crime was not committed by some mythical Nazis, but by Germans. In current German propaganda, the mythical Nazis are accused of being responsible for this genocide, the aim is to cross out the word "Germans"!

@goldilocks_walks Месяц назад

Interesting, what makes the Nazis mythical? Is the German state still aiming to eradicate the world's Jewish population today? I would imagine they do not which is why they might seek to differentiate between the two, but I do not know enough about German politics... Thanks for your comment and insight!!

@konradlewandowski23 Месяц назад

@@goldilocks_walks The entire German society participated in this genocide, but the Germans are trying in their propaganda to shift the responsibility to some "small group" of Nazis!

@goldilocks_walks Месяц назад

Hm, I don’t agree that the entire society is responsible, some of its own population was Jewish and some non-Jewish people even tried to help, despite knowing they would face severe consequences. Many people had no choice but to submit or face execution themselves. The Nazi group was a political party which at its largest during its rise to power only consisted of about 1 in 10 of the German population. It sounds to me like their leaders hijacked the German government and used its army and resources to force their worldview on everyone else. Modern politics still operates this way but there are *supposed* to be safeguards in place to prevent such a thing from ever happening again. Much of the German population and the world had no idea exactly what was happening while it was going on, as they tried to hide as much as they possibly could from the public (which was much easier to do before social media and cell phones)!

@carick235 Месяц назад

It was not only other minority groups, Slavs were also targeted heavily and treated as sub-humans, for example WW2 Croat Ustasha regime killed around one million Serbs in territory of todays Croatia/Bosnia (read about Jasenovac camp). You even had children-only concentration camps for Serb children in Croatia, the only such in ww2. The only difference is that Slavs unlike Jews put up a big effort to fight Nazis, Serbia and Yugoslavia had the most successful resistance movement of ww2 (French one was a joke, although in media and culture it is presented like the only one), as well as Poland or Ukraine.

@goldilocks_walks Месяц назад

Wow, a concentration camp for children sounds absolutely insane. I am astonished at how cruel the human species can be. Fascinating that I don't recall learning much about any of this history years ago when I was a student in the US education system.