We as a people have yet to learn that *I was only following orders* is not a reason to inflict inhuman treatment on another person. The excuse it is in the manual is not an excuse. It was one of the tools I was taught to use, just because you have been taught how to use a tool does not mean it needs to be used in an inhuman method. 

Currently both sides of the protest/riot issues ongoing in America and in other countries around the world are using excuses for their action. All the violence of that last 8 months because of pent-up frustrations.

People ignoring and re writing history to benefit their cause.To justify their actions. I would like to see it change, but I don't think people are capable of being nice to each other. Society and culture always get in the way of the individual.

No matter how many movies or documentries i watch, no matter how many articles i read about it, nothing can describe the magnitude of despair and hurt i feel. And like you said, its like we never learn, making the same mistakes over and over againjust different situations and maybe results. One step forward and three steps back.

I've never been.  But I've read several posts by people I respect and seen their photographs.  I am deeply affected every time.  

The sheer industry of killing people.  Productivity of the keepers goes up every year as measured in body count per person employed.  If it were a modern factory the numbers would be celebrated.

Fear is the enemy.  For us all, every one.  

I just noticed from your photos a 'new thing'(to me).  They didn't electrify every wire.  They used a not easily figured pattern to become more efficient at that small aspect.  Deep breath.

Thanks Taraz.  It desperately needs to be spoken those words that should be never said.  I appreciate hearing them again.

It is indeed something that can't be explained when we go through the horrors of human evil. We all have a good side and also a bad one. Those who acted in the name of authority felt they were not doing harm, just executing orders. The human mind is fascinating because of its immense power of denial. Of twisting reality.

I can't imagine how it must have felt to walk on that land. Knowing all the history. The dandelion.... A sign of life moving on on the ashes of the dead. A sign of beauty in the middle of a quiet scene of horror. We have to look back at history and continuously learn. So we don't forget what people can become under worst conditions: heroes or brutes.

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Prejudice and the resulting dehumanization of humans always justified the biggest evils of history, be it slavery, jewish ghettos, concentration camps, etc.

I haven't been, as you know, but am keen to go for sure. 

I've been to the battlefields of the western front in France and Belgium though (WW1), a place of wholesale slaughter, and imagine the emotion to be similar...Although the death-factory nature of Auschwitz lends it a different feel I would say. I like how your photos seem to set the tone of the place which I would think is quite dour. 

Imagine if inanimate objects actually soaked in the events that transpired there...I would say the place would exude a feeling of abject misery.

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The scenes of Auschwitz are forever sealed in my mind from the countless world war II documentaries. I do not regret watching though, as turning a blind eye to the horrors of the world only makes those worse. 

Very considerate of you to choose a black and white mode for the photos. Seems fitting. Can't imagine Auschwitz in a colorful pallette. 

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Hmmmm, touching piece of words, human has actually faced alot and pains inflicted on us by our fellow human , it's quite disappointing all these is done to us by our fellow human, this is inhumane.

It is a place of despair and deep sorrow. The fear of death swallows us entirely, it palsy, but at the same time, it gives impetus to people with strong spirit. Such photo stories amaze me.

It's why I get mildly exasperated by people desperate to wipe out/rewrite history that offends their delicate sensibilities.  Especially when it's this agonising.

Sadly, although not exactly the same, but maybe worse as we are not in a war, Europe nor the world, is doing nothing with Lesbos wich is not a concentration camp where they kill you, but you have many probabilities to die.

I think about it for many days and it is unacceptable and makes me feel we have not learned anything as a society. I saw an interview with a kid who lives now in town and was there for 1 year and he was not surprised by the fires. He said it is the only way they have for the authorities to react.

Just a few months ago, I had to listen from the Spanish vice minister that a boat from [OpenArms ](ps://www.openarms.es/en)a Spanish ONG whose mission is to save lives from the Mediterranean, did not have a license to rescue. In the ocean, you MUST rescue, it is the ocean law.

This is the type of politicians we have. Incapable to solve a humanitarian problem and point to the rescuers as if they were criminals for not having a License which is not needed as you HAVE to RESCUE in the sea. I believe they all should spend just 1hr next to the people the boat rescues, looking at their faces and feeling their bodies to realize how cruel they all are. 
And we also, the rest of citizens, for not forcing them to react.

At end of 2019 I was supposed to design an interactive exhibit for the museum there but it got put on hold for covid.