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People say things like this about Hitler all the time. But it is just not true.
There are, and always have been people, in society just as evil, and more, than Hitler.
Fortunately for the world, most of these people die anonymously and at worst take a few people with them in some mass murder event or serial killings.
We only recognize Hitler as some paragon of evil because of a perfect storm of factors that gave him the power to do what he did.
Make no mistake Hitler was vile and had the blood of millions on his hands, but there are sadly many more whose hearts and intentions are just as black.
Since you skipped over the second part of my question about the World Trade Center, do you think New Yorkers overreacted over the construction of the Ground Zero Mosque?
Yes - that faux outrage was embarrassing to Americans and, most of all, embarrassing to NYC. But I also don't think most of the people complaining were actually from NYC.
This scenario is different.
And to those who question why go to Auschwitz at all, why go anywhere? Maybe you are blessed with being able to wrap your thoughts around black and white photographs and memoirs, but I am not. I went to Auschwitz to fully understand a human being's capacity for cruelty and put a sense of place to all of books I have read and stories I have been told by older relatives. That's also why I went to the ghettos of Krakow and Prague, the Anne Frank house, the bombed out Coventry Cathedral that stands as a monument, the 9/11 Memorial, Dunkirk, the Andersonville Civil War POW camp, and all of the battlefields up and down the east coast that my dad thought it was important to experience in order to contextualize history. It's also why I very much want to visit the pit outside the small town in Ukraine where everyone else who shares my mom's maiden name was murdered because of their faith (my great grandfather was the only one of his family to leave and, thus, survive). Some of these places may be important because of your own family history, but many are just important as a human being if you have the opportunity.
There are many concentration camps that have fallen off the radar because they were destroyed, sometimes built over. We should never forget. We are just lucky to have these places preserved unlike so many other genocides and atrocities.
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.
Do these people realize that the showers used at Auschwitz were not water showers like we take now. Gas was used to kill so unless the sprinkler was sprinkling gas out it was nothing like the real thing.
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