Off to Auschwitz next week................Not to everyones taste but has anyone been?
03-10-2009, 04:14 PM
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Off to Auschwitz next week................Not to everyones taste but has anyone been?
Going for a weekend to Auschwitz concentration camp next week with a few blokes.
VERY interesting and hopefully will make for a good time armed with my camera for some good pictures too.....
I know it is not to everyones tastes but has anyone been????
Looking forward to it....
VERY interesting and hopefully will make for a good time armed with my camera for some good pictures too.....
I know it is not to everyones tastes but has anyone been????
Looking forward to it....
03-10-2009, 04:17 PM
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guy I work with went and said he right enjoyed it, got to feel a bit strange walking round though knowing what happened. Have seen some awesome pictures come back from their too 
03-10-2009, 04:21 PM
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Thats the plan......i am going all out with the Canon so watch this space for some pictures.....
Paul.....always fasinated me aswell.......in a morbid kind of way
Paul.....always fasinated me aswell.......in a morbid kind of way
03-10-2009, 04:52 PM
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A few years back I went to Dachau (on my own stag weekend!)
Anyway, seems strange to say but really glad I went. A couple of the lads missed it due to hangovers and I think regret not dragging themselves out of their beds.
Anyway, seems strange to say but really glad I went. A couple of the lads missed it due to hangovers and I think regret not dragging themselves out of their beds.
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03-10-2009, 04:56 PM
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Tiff, a good friend of mine and his missus went there a few years ago. Its a very very cold place (not weather wise i mean), but it was something she'd meant to do for years. Very quiet and reflective atmosphere wise, with some very knowledgable guides.
Although she's read up on it for years, she said she wouldnt go again. Once was enough.
Very moving visit from start to finish.
Look forward to the pics when you return
Although she's read up on it for years, she said she wouldnt go again. Once was enough.
Very moving visit from start to finish.
Look forward to the pics when you return
03-10-2009, 07:53 PM
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I live in Germany. Right near the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.
I went there a few months ago as they have an exhibition there. No birds fly over the area. There's mounds with markings on to give an idea of how many people are buried there.
Very much an eye opening experience. Makes you feel like you are being watched all the time.
Definitely a place that I would recommend that people visit.
I went there a few months ago as they have an exhibition there. No birds fly over the area. There's mounds with markings on to give an idea of how many people are buried there.
Very much an eye opening experience. Makes you feel like you are being watched all the time.
Definitely a place that I would recommend that people visit.
03-10-2009, 08:00 PM
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I worked in Dachau for 4 years , simmilar thing , but not used , unlike where you will be going.
Will be an interesting trip, and hard to take in the reality of what went on, my wife is German from Liepzig and they had to go to these places as school field trips, very disturbing.
Will be an interesting trip, and hard to take in the reality of what went on, my wife is German from Liepzig and they had to go to these places as school field trips, very disturbing.
03-10-2009, 08:06 PM
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03-10-2009, 08:12 PM
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I was in Krakow on a stag do this year and it was booked for a day trip, but a very late night and a late awakening ment I missed it.
Like Krakow though so may well go back.
Like Krakow though so may well go back.
04-10-2009, 12:36 AM
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04-10-2009, 01:26 AM
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I went in August, it was so unreal. The village seemed like a film set it, especially as we were driving towards it and seeing it appear on the horizon.
Going in the Church was the worst part, just knowing what had happened in there.
If you go make sure you go in the museum and get the "talking guide" headphone thing, then walk round the village.
Just a few pictures..
Going in the Church was the worst part, just knowing what had happened in there.
If you go make sure you go in the museum and get the "talking guide" headphone thing, then walk round the village.
Just a few pictures..
04-10-2009, 02:40 AM
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a few of me mates went last year, apparently this is how the visit went
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know so right lunatics
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know so right lunatics
04-10-2009, 09:09 AM
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Very real when i was young, being born at the end of the war it was rammed into our brains. Reading this I feel perhaps i should go to Auschwitz & show my respect to those killed there.
04-10-2009, 09:24 AM
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a few of me mates went last year, apparently this is how the visit went
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know some right disrespectful cunts
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know some right disrespectful cunts
04-10-2009, 09:34 AM
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a few of me mates went last year, apparently this is how the visit went
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know so right lunatics
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know so right lunatics
Been there because part of my History dissertation in Uni was about it. Words can't explain what people went through in that camp, between gas chambers and barbaric medical experiments, those poor people deserve nothing but respect...over 3 million of them!
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04-10-2009, 09:50 AM
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a few of me mates went last year, apparently this is how the visit went
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know so right lunatics
1 lad got off the coach and did an army roll across the car park.
when they were watching the video about the the prisoners one of the lads shouted out "you could play a tune on them ribs he's like a piano"
then when they were getting the tour 1 of me mates was making machine gun noises and doing the actions of shooting people.
Yes i know so right lunatics
04-10-2009, 10:22 AM
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It was 1 of me mates brothers birtdays and they went to prague for a long weekend and he wanted to go.
I personally dont undersstand why most of them went either as apparenly they drunk all the way there on the coach and its hardly somewhere you go when your pissed up and wanting to have a laugh. Probably ruined the day for most the other people there to unfortunatly.
I personally dont undersstand why most of them went either as apparenly they drunk all the way there on the coach and its hardly somewhere you go when your pissed up and wanting to have a laugh. Probably ruined the day for most the other people there to unfortunatly.
04-10-2009, 11:33 AM
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Take your iPod, and listen to Slayer's "Angel Of Death" whilst there.
(and no, contrary to popular belief, that song is not a praisal of Auschwitz or the atrocities that happened there - it's actually lyrics based on a poem by a former Jewish captive of WWII, who survived)
(and no, contrary to popular belief, that song is not a praisal of Auschwitz or the atrocities that happened there - it's actually lyrics based on a poem by a former Jewish captive of WWII, who survived)
07-10-2009, 09:44 AM
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Chilling place im sure, although Im not convinced that what remains can get any real sense of the true horror of the place across.
But that said, its good that something remains to remember those innocent people murdered at the hands of an evil regime, especially as warning to the rest of us of what can happen if we allow ourselves and our government to be motivated by hate.
A truely horrific time in mankind's history.
But that said, its good that something remains to remember those innocent people murdered at the hands of an evil regime, especially as warning to the rest of us of what can happen if we allow ourselves and our government to be motivated by hate.
A truely horrific time in mankind's history.
07-10-2009, 09:51 AM
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Although people are still being shitty to each other all over the world, I cant think of any modern equivalent to what happened to the jewish people of germany (and occupied lands such as poland) at the hands of their own government and countrymen.
The sheer scale and efficiency of what happens is mind boggling.
Even more so for places like Treblanka than Auschwitz
The sheer scale and efficiency of what happens is mind boggling.
Even more so for places like Treblanka than Auschwitz
07-10-2009, 10:01 AM
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You'd be surprised Chip.... I completed a dissertation surrounding Mayan culture and barbaric 21st century rituals and torture, and not much has changed...unless what my military friends and family tell me is untrue. Nothing has changed, except that ethnic cleansing isn't as media blown as it used to be, just to keep naiive people in the dark. I'd happily walk around Warsaw in the 30's than a dark street full of knife wielding hoodies of today! 
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07-10-2009, 10:09 AM
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You'd be surprised Chip.... I completed a dissertation surrounding Mayan culture and barbaric 21st century rituals and torture, and not much has changed...unless what my military friends and family tell me is untrue. Nothing has changed, except that ethnic cleansing isn't as media blown as it used to be, just to keep naiive people in the dark. I'd happily walk around Warsaw in the 30's than a dark street full of knife wielding hoodies of today!
At Treblinka, around a million people were shipped in, killed, disposed of, in a year!
Its actually a triumph of logistics how they managed to get through so many people with the relatively limited technology available to them at the time.
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