“Birkenau is where the Nazis erected most of the machinery of mass extermination in which they murdered approximately one million European Jews. At the same time, Birkenau was the largest concentration camp (with nearly 300 primitive barracks, most of them wooden). Over a hundred thousand prisoners were here in 1944: Jews, Poles, Roma, and others. The nearly 200 hectares of grounds include the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria and places filled with human ashes. There are primitive prisoner barracks and kilometers of fences and roads.” -- Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Website
Arrogance
personified
Ubiquity of
deceit
Strategically
placed
Calculated in
every possible way
Hellish beyond
imagination
Wanton
denigration and humiliation
Intention of full
annihilation
Terrifyingly
rational and logical
Zenith of a
perverted ideology in the service of nation
In spite of the wealth of knowledge held within our group,
none of us were prepared for the immensity and scale of Auschwitz. One can read a library of books and view a
gallery of images and be completely dumbstruck by the scope of this campus of
destruction.
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