Some combination of (2) and (3)
in retaliation for Draw Mohammed day.
Basically, it's right-wing fundie paranoia, with the added attraction of annoying teh evil Joos.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:46,
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I see
well if it keeps them happy...
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Has anybody here been to auschwitz and birkenau?
I went when i toured round europe after uni...
grim but something that needs to be seen...
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Pazuzu does a barrel roll, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 10:50,
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Yes, I went...
...also went to the ruins of several of the extermination camps like Sobibor, not much left there now as they were much smaller, much easier to demolish and were running on what was basically a skeleton crew (boom boom...no, but really) as they didn't have to keep anyone there. Only reason Auschwitz I and II are so famous is because they were work camps and were still taking huge numbers of people right up 'til the end of the war, so they actually have survivor accounts.
Couldn't go to quite a few of them, but went to the mass grave shooting sites where the rest of my family dug and were then executed. The soil around the pits was very, very black, but the trees seemed happy. I like the trees.
Weirdly, my cousins' old house is now an STA centre
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 11:26,
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auschwitz
Oswiecsiem or something in Polish, went there back in the early 90's. Quite chilling. I found it unreal that they had turned it into almost a theme park - there was a fast food joint being built when I was there. It brought the reality of the whole horribleness to me, I was surprised how upsetting I found it as I'm normally cynical. what's an STA centre?
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I dont think its a case of them being famous or not
they are used as the example because to the quality of what remains, they raise the issue.
Auschwitz particularly because it basically has it "all"..
anyway.. gives me the chills thinking about it again.
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Pazuzu does a barrel roll, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 11:45,
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