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Behind the Aegis

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1. I went to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2017.

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:17 PM

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I have lots of pictures. I was also disgusted by some of the behavior I saw there, including adults grabbing the barbed wire and pretending to be electrocuted. When we were going through one of the barracks, a few people were laughing and joking at the pictures of prisoners because of how they looked, then rolling their eyes as we walked through the glass hallway of mementos. That stopped for most, but especially the women when we came to the shoes of children.

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