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People get easily offended by anything these days. What I find silly is the notion of Jews being offended, when as many poles did perish in German hands as well yet you don't hear them reminding you of that any possible time.
Clearly you've never been to Auschwitz if that's your perception.
Furthermore, it's a little different when 90%+ of the Jewish population in many European countries was systematically murdered compared to what happened in Poland. Still horrible, but you can't compare the scale.
I swear that some people are actively HUNTING for things to be offended by. They would rather have others suffer in the heat while in line than have mist coolers set up.
Lets throw your family on a cattle car for days, then round them up, tear them apart from each other, while you go off to work til you die, while you watch your children and wife be humiliated by being forced to strip naked, then marched into a chemical "shower".
You have no idea what those poor people went through, therefore your couch-dwelling butt best be quiet.
Couldn't it also be argued that going to Auschwitz as a tourist is in bad taste, as well? Thousands of people were murdered there. It's not the Grand Canyon.
yeah, crass like visiting the USS Arizona or the 9/11 memorial or the tomb of the unknown soldier.
Even by C-D standards, most of the responses in this thread are clueless.
What becomes of Auschwitz is of course the business of the Polish government. To my mind, it is an appropriate memorial site -- and a very moving one.
On the other hand, the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, standing on the Federal Mall, surrounded by institutions and memorials of American achievement and excellence, is NOT apprpriate. America's only connection to the Holocaust was our efforts to end it and destroy the Nazis. Such a place of cruelty, horror and shame belongs in the place where it occurred -- such as Auschwitz.
People get easily offended by anything these days. What I find silly is the notion of Jews being offended, when as many poles did perish in German hands as well yet you don't hear them reminding you of that any possible time.
Clearly you've never been to Auschwitz if that's your perception.
Furthermore, it's a little different when 90%+ of the Jewish population in many European countries was systematically murdered compared to what happened in Poland. Still horrible, but you can't compare the scale.
Atually I went there three years ago. What did happen to Jews was despicable, but Poland suffered as much. I'm not condoning anything, but concentration camps were only about killing Jews, many more people other than them encountered death there.
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I swear that some people are actively HUNTING for things to be offended by. They would rather have others suffer in the heat while in line than have mist coolers set up.
