[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by widgeon13

A visit to Auschwitz might be too expensive but it is a sobering experience.

I have been to three of the camps. Used to parachute right down the road from Bergen Belsen.

Went to Poland to do some demo parachuting in the town of Krakow the same year that the Berlin Wall fell down. Was there with some German friends and one day we had low ceilings and we could not jump so looked at other things to do and took the bus to Auschwitz together.

Going to Auschwitz, was an eye opener, especially with a group of Germans who were good friends of mine. We had a guide who was there during the war and still had the tatoo on his arm... we made it until the part where the photos were shown of the twins that Mengele had experimented on and from there on it was somewhat of a blur.

Everyone should go to at least one of the concentration camps. The world should never forget something like this.