Thankyou..respect to you..and past lives, on delivering your video..regards Karolyn Melbourne Australia

I have been there in 2018 and something similar happened to me. I‘m Swiss so I understand German and we were in a German group and there was this German dude who was slightely smiling all the time and taking pictures of everything, the shoes, the glasses, the hair… I was 18 and was so incredibly angry that I stared at him with rage on my face. He then asked me why I was doing this and I told him that this was absolutely disrespectful and that no human being should behave like this at such a place no matter of the nationality you have - but from a German person visiting this place I would have expected this behaviour the least! Sorry for this long comment but this memory still makes me so angry and sad…

I'm German. When I was in my late teens and an apprentice, in 1990 or 1991, our class was going to a memorial site where "Euthanasia", i.e. the killing of, in this case, mentally ill people had taken place in the Nazi era. Nearly all, maybe even every single one of my classmates were chatting and giggling throughout, even when we were in the gas chambers, infamously camouflaged as showers, the very place where people realised that they were about to get killed, that no water came out of the shower heads, that the doors were locked from the outside... My classmates came from several federal states. The vocational school we attended was one of merely two for our future profession in the whole east of Germany, so there was a fairly wide variety of personalities and backgrounds. And still I was the only one or one of maybe 2 or 3 capable of grasping what place we were in. The only defence I have for them is that it was a mandatory visit and they didn't choose to go there, let alone something from a bucket list. But still, this experience has left a mark on my soul. I remember it quite frequently, especially when the topic of totalitarianism or/and the 3rd Reich comes up. And, in combination with those carefree Auschwitz visitors, it tells me that, contrary to widespread belief, yes, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, could happen again.

The problem is not speaking out. We must voice our objections to crass, rude, and disrespectful actions of others. To not do so puts us into the same class as those who didn't speak out against the atrocities. This should make us better people to stand against such actions of inhumanity.

I found out also that you can not make people empathize. You can't force your life experience on others even when it is common sense.

Sounds like the 911 Memorial Pools in New York at the 911 Memorial. I saw multiple people taking selfies and grinning like hell in front of the waterfall. I mean, what exactly is there to smile about? I've also been to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but thank goodness I didn't experience something as disgusting as what you saw.

It is disgraceful how some people behave I didn’t have my phone out the entire time it’s a time to take in what you see

My Mom and I went with my Dad, to the Holocaust museum in DC, and in the room with the shoes, my Dad thought it was a good idea, to make a joke about. We pulled him aside and chewed him out for it. His defense ? He thought we needed a little humor, because everything was so depressing. It's supposed to be depressing, because that's what these people went through. I never got over that, even all of these years later.

It doesn't mean anything to modern people. They can't link the goings on in Aushwitz with their tawdry modern, easy-going lives. This epoch was 80 years ago. Pointless even trying to make them understand. Due to the Internet, films, magazines, television and phones, emotion and feeling have disappeared.

Sad how some people are. RIP to all the people that suffered and died there.

Unfortunately the capacity to trivialise anything and everything is now an inescapable part of most people’s behaviour these days. Narcissists rule. The people you described were not there for the victims, they were there for themselves. They should have been asked to leave.

Many people are stupid and ignorant and they disgust me.

My only opportunity to visit a Nazi concentration camp was Dachau in 1985. Still a very vivid memory for me and my wife. It was a beautiful spring day, but once inside the compound, I noticed that birds and insects were curiously absent. Even then, nature knew it was a place of darkness and death and avoided it. The crematoria still smelled of death. While visiting the museum, the people were respectful and quiet. It was in the days of no cell phones, but there were no attempts at photography.

The tour guides need to be fierce. This is ridiculous. It is a place of unimaginable pain and horror. Visitors should be QUIET, RESPECTFUL, CIRCUMSPECT. There should be a strong lecture given to every tour group before they enter. This is not Disneyland. It is the exact opposite of the happiest place on earth.

reminds me of a school 'trip' we had, back then when schindlers list just came out in the cinema's. we got inside the cinema and sat down and there was this 'bully' from the class bringing the hitler salute. the whole class was kicked out. i was about 10 or so and my interest with ww2 came from reading black and white 'comic' strips called 'front', maybe someone knows them.

I visited Auschwitz in 2016. Only by reading the title of your video, I knew what you would tell. I understand perfectly what you mean

Well said sir. The only disagreement I have, and this is with most documentaries about the nazi camps is when the term "extermination" is used. That, to me connotes the killing of pests or rats not human beings. The term is "murder". These were people. Lets call it what it is.

I have been to that concentration camp and i can assure you if you feel you need to take selfies you should not go there, not only is it disrespectful it's a crime to humanity, get a life, you need to know what suffering is!!!!

Well said, I couldn't agree more.

Totally agree with you

I believe people should visit but only so it won’t happen again. It’s sad that people can’t behave.

Israel is just as bad now...

Not to mention people leaning up against the ***actual real life cattle cart*** and taking selfies. Me? I just felt compelled to gently touch the plaque on it. "A huge black hole without a soul" was how someone described it in another article... I couldn't agree more. In memoriam to all those poor murdered souls...lest we forget.

My friend, some people are so overly empowered and overly entitled with no true right to be it’s nothing short of disgusting. Totally, disrespectful on their part. I don’t know if I would not have spoken up.

Very well said sir! You exactly right.

The same should be said of major battlefields, Gettysburg, Shiloh, the Somme, Normandy Beach, Hiroshima, Pearl Harbor, Waterloo. . .

Very beautiful to set this straight.

I agree!!

Imagine in years to come what's happening in Palestine at the moment is the same as what happened the Jews

Those will be the same people who stand idle when history repeats itself or worse, will participate willingly because it does not effect them in the least.

Thank you for that. You are absolutely correct. I went to the holocaust museum in Washington. I spent four hours in there reading and looking at items they preserved. I could have spent two days in there. I couldn't believe the horrific things one race did to another. These places are there, so we never forget or allow to happen again.

Look at what is going on in the college campus's in the US. Ivy League students supporting Hamas, the terrorists who like the Nazi's killed innocent people, cut the heads off of babies. Is my own country becoming another Nazi regime. The Squad in the peoples house with their antisemitism, that are not being removed. They were elected, so was Hitler.

BEST WORDS EVER SPOKEN !THANK AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!

People say something like that could never happen again. The behavior you and others have witnessed there proves that it can

Here, Here, Well said that Man Respect 👊🏻😎✌🏻

Eine Generation, die auf KZfaq spannendere Folgen mit mehr Action und mehr Blut bestellen, kann nicht begreifen, daß das, was da in Auschwitz zu sehen ist, kein inszenierter Film ist. Die Leute können sich nicht vorstellen, daß damals gottlose Verbrecher anderen Menschen die schrecklichsten Dinge wirklich angetan haben. Weil sie es sich nicht vorstellen können, ist die Gefahr groß, daß die Gefahr von rechts unterschätzt wird. Aber es ist leider wahr. Da wurden Menschen grausam ermordet, nur, weil sie einer anderen Ethnie angehörten. Wir sollten vor den Toten Achtung haben und die Bilder in unseren Herzen tragen und die Handys aus lassen. ☮️

Die Vorkommnisse sind bekannt, ausreichend diskutiert und die Nachfahren der tatsächlichen Opfer scheinen "entschädigt " zu sein, sofern soetwas überhaupt möglich ist. Wer die bis zur Stunde anhaltenden "Gespräche " über Restitution zahlreicher Kunstgegenstände verfolgt, kann sich selbst ein Bild machen. Wie immer man über die Geschichtsschreibung der Siegermächte denken will, überhaupt über die Anzahl der Opfer! Wenn es nur ein Opfer gewesen wäre, wäre dieses eines zuviel gewesen. Die Zahlenmystik der Kabbala spricht ihre eigene Sprache. Wer die Thora, die Mischna, Gemarkung und den Thalmut genauer betrachtet, wird zu eigenen Vorstellungen kommen können. Was die orientierungslose Nation der Deutschen angeht, habe ich auch eine selbst erfahrene Meinung. Meinung Meinung. Sie bekommen was sie mehrheitlich verdienen und können wählen zwischen russischer Knute, Chinesischer Fuchtel und islamischem Terror. Hat das die Mehrheit verdient? Also wenn Sie mich fragen würden,...Die gemara 3:12 meisten schon!

Well said tourist are disgusting

The snow looks nice, il add it to my bucket list 😜

Auswitz is horrable but as i hear from your Voice you come probably from the UK. Do you know how many People the UK killed in China&India ? Why as a Brit noone talks about this? Alone in India the UK killed 20-25Million People. The Opiumwars with China approx. 10-20Million People....and NOONE in the UK cares about this. No memorials, no regrets , no remembering. The Germans stand by their darkest hours. Every Kid in Germany gets this in schools, did you have your darkest parts in school ??

Selfi.. Smile . Kissing..... Bravo we are wery bad People...

How disrespectful

How about wearing a full SS officers uniform.

Imagine a stripper doing a dildo show.😂

Its like someone dressing inappropriately at your friends funeral. Laughing a lot. Cracking jokes.

I have seen exactly the same thing happen at the Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii. It was literally swarming with Japanese tourists taking pictures & acting like it was a Sunday stroll thru the park. How on earth do you come to the conclusion that Auschwitz, of all places, is the place to start playing tonsil tennis?

Sorry but no respect for dumb rules! How not to forget what happend when no pictures are allowed? If you want respect then give respect first. And the people working there are unfriendly to germans . . .

Well I think abortion clinics are morally wrong, should I go to an abortion clinic and tell ppl how to act?? And how to behave?? We live in a current society which also condones mass murder, it’s just before the babies are even born?? How can one mass murder be any worse or better than another?? These are the tough questions we must ask.. are we a culture who celebrates murder or not???? We can’t have it both ways?? I’m sick and tired of acting like our modern western culture is any better.. At least the Nazis were open and honest about things.. modern liberals are far more disgusting in my opinion!! So save your moral high ground here until we have stopped the mass murder of babies.. so far since planned parenthood we have stood by and witnessed over 60 million deaths.. only 6 million Jews were murdered. Hitler was a choir boy. It’s just that modern left sold abortion as healthcare.. the most brilliant mass murder in history. But murder none the less.. and that DISGUSTS ME.. who cares about this???

"I'm not sure if I believe in good or evil." Then you're wasting your time. Nietzsche wrote a book titled "Beyond Good and Evil." He was wasting everybody's time. Here's a quick philosophical tip: The definition of philosophy is "love of wisdom." The definition of wisdom is "the Will of God." Modern man cannot define Love. The definition of Love is "to will, and when prudent, to work for the good of the other." The definition of Prudent is "proper with regard to person, place, and time." The definition of Good is "whatever God says is Good." Or perhaps Good is "whatever is the Will of God [whatever is Wisdom]." God is Good, Wisdom, Love. Keep it simple.

Well said, brother.