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Campo de Exterminio Nazi: Auschwitz-Birkenau
... juntos. Muchos se daban cuenta recién cuando subían a los vagones del tren que las cosas no eran así. Pasaban entre 3 y 10 días en los vagones, solo con un balde de agua y un balde vacío para hacer las necesidades y el vagón no se habría hasta llegar al destino. Para los alemanes esta era la primer "selección natural" ya que los niños y ancianos morían de hambre o sed, o muchas veces se mataban entre ellos de la desesperación.
A la llegada el campo todos eran ...
Quick stop over...
... playing a drinking game which I was just terrible at. So drinking from 7 pm to 3 am like this is not the best formula for a night out, and at 3 am the decision was made to go to bed rather than go out, might be best as Girihen had to get up at 9 for work... Very nice stopover and we had a lot of laughs....but I've really got to stop trying to drink Vodka like the eastern Europeans, it's just not possible...please forgive me body...
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A walk through death row.
Yesterday we went to Auschwitz.
It was one of the most eye opening, heartbreaking and educational day that we have ever done.
We arrived at the Auschwitz I (the concentration camp portion) and walked through the exhibits, and grounds of the camp. If you want to see 2000kg of human hair, or thousands of shoes, or hundreds of suitcases with names and birth dates written on them, this is the place. It ...
Auschwitz
... Nazi terror and a way of completely repressing the Polish people. There was a quote with him ordering his lackeys to kill the Poles, bearing no "pity or sympathy." He decided starvation would be most effective - rather than just shooting them. He wanted to break the nation:
"In order to eliminate every cultrual and economic peculiarity, no Polish coorperation, union or association can exist...Polish restauants and cafes are not permitted...there shall be ...
Never Again
... the Auschwitz I camp however, is where Mengele conducted grisly medical experiments on inmates, these often involved gruesome surgical procedures without the use of anesthetics, attempts to change subjects eye-colour by injecting chemicals into their eyeballs, and many other experiments on twins, for which he had a particular interest.
Other buildings in the Auschwitz I complex included such displays as a room, roughly 15' wide by 40' long with one side ...
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