The gate of death in Auschwitz Birkenau. A million people died here including Jews, Poles and many more. It’s s truly depressing place.

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1. The fact the train tracks go right through the gate always is chilling to me

2. One place in Poland I’ll never visit. I was close to tearing up 3-4 times while strolling around the Polin Museum last weekend…

3. I went there when I was younger (maybe 7 or 8 or so) and I always regretted not really caring. Ought to go back some day.

4. Never forget the true causes of the Holocaust:

   1. Civic passivity at an increasingly undemocratic, racist, sexist and xenophobic government,
   2. Scapegoating of minority groups, bundling them all together, using the worst representatives of these groups as carte blanche to repress all of them,
   3. Lack of proper, sustainable and people-oriented economic policies, that left a void for bad political actors to exploit,
   4. Societal acceptance of militarism and ethnonationalism, fetishization of traditional gender roles and sacrifice for your nation.

   We can’t forget these lessons, we can’t just handwave it away to being evil or to being a weird German act of madness. The ideas at the core of Nazism still remain strong in Europe, embeded and spread in large parts of the more vulnerable (i.e. those at risk of poverty or social exclusion, those with lackluster integration with broader migrant groups) by hostile political agents, often funded by our geopolitical rivals.

5. Edit: …were murdered

6. I still cant believe how big it is there, I went on a cold January morning and it was proper miserable, it’s a shame the Germans managed to destroy so much of it before they were handcuffed

7. I was there in 2015 with my parents in summer. I was very interesting. First day we visited Krakow which is a lovely city and then the 2 camps.

   Never again!