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Auschwitz-Birkenau was the principal and most notorious of the six concentration and extermination camps established by Nazi Germany to implement its Final Solution policy which had as its aim the mass murder of the Jewish people in Europe. Built in Poland under Nazi German occupation initially as a concentration camp for Poles and later for Soviet prisoners of war, it soon became a prison for a number of other nationalities. Between the years 1942-1944 it became the main mass extermination camp where Jews were tortured and killed for their so-called racial origins. In addition to the mass murder of well over a million Jewish men, women and children, and tens of thousands of Polish victims, Auschwitz also served as a camp for the racial murder of thousands of Roma and Sinti and prisoners of several European nationalities.

I was not going to post these pictures, I took of Auschwitz, but due to the sign over the main gates being stolen, and fears that the camp,s closure is being called for, by some elements ,I have now decided to do so. This is Auschwitz, and not Birkenau, I will post the pictures I took of Birkenau later. This is very personal to me, and I have friends who,s parents were inmates here.


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Andy
 
Sobering imagery. Words fail to describe the awfulness of what happened there.

Some well composed shots there.
 
Its a very moving place to visit, hard to describe the strange atmosphere present there. Thanks for posting the photos. I can't believe there is talk of closing the place.
 
Nice photos. I think i have some somewhere, but they were on 35mm. I actually found birkenau more moving than auschwitz.
 
Did you see the alledged Fire pool that resembles a normal swimming pool?Very emotive explore this one.
 
Great pictures of a not so great place, I read someplace that the sign that was stolen has since been recovered, it was recovered only recently so maybe it had not been re-instated when you visited?
 
Looking at the photo's gives a sense of the desolation the poor souls must have felt being behind the wire. I can't see them closing the place it would be an insult to those who dies there and should be kept open for others to see how low people stooped
 
It wont close as its a World Heritage Site,but I would expect more visible security to be seen around the sites.
 
About 25 years ago when I was a student, six of us bought a minibus together and had a summer grand tour of Europe. The tour included Germany which we spent sometime in Munich and were staying north of the city in the town Dachau. We spent many evenings in the 'Hogbrauhaus' beer hall in Munich city having a great time getting drunk. One luchtime back in the bar we got talking to an old german guy, he asked if we liked the city and where we were staying. When we told him Dachau town his face changed and he was silent for a while. He then told us he had lived in the town when he was a teenager during the war. When the town was captured by the allied forces he was forced to help 'clear' the Dachau concentration camp. We could see the horror on his face when he talked to us, he then made us promise to visit the concentration camp before we left. 'You must see and learn!' he kept saying.

We visited the camp later that day and it was a something that I will never forget. It made my best friend cry like a baby as we walked around the place. There was a fenced off grass covered mound that was protected by armed German police, which we later found out to be the mound of ashes We were all so moved by what we saw and felt, that we did not speak to each other for the rest of the day, and drove through the night to France to be out of Germany.
 
Thanks for posting, Andy. Always very sobering to see pics from here.

Neill, thankyou very much for relating your experience whilst visiting Dachau. That must have been very moving, especially after meeting someone who'd had to help clear the camp.
 
I never dralised Dachau was near Munich as I would have tried to vist but have no doubt I would have felt the same way. Thanks for telling the story. The photos on here tell me how lucky we are
 
Hi, next to the tins, in a display cabinet, was the hair of around 30,000 women, just needed to go outside and breath at that point.



Andy
 
I dont want to sound like a twat,but when i went there was signs up asking people not to take photos INSIDE as a mark of respect i.e inside the crematorium/gas chamber and the room with the Zyclon B cannisters are.
 
To be honest mate I could not think of a better way of honouring their memory than by taking photos to remind people of what happened. To me the most chilling photo is the scaffold. Imagine having to stand in front of that and watch people being hung (strangled slowly by the look of things) it gives a feeling of helplessness just looking at it. I can't think of how the victim felt :cry:
 

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