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-What are your expectations of the visit to Buchenwald, i.e. what do you,
personally, hope to learn from, or perhaps come to terms with during the
visit? How do you think you will react (emotionally or otherwise) while
you are at the camp?
Like I mentioned in the response to the last question, I think I have
almost been jaded by the amount of discussion I have already heard about
the Holocaust. After hearing the actual accounts as they occurred in the
past, seeing the empty concentration camp now in the present, may even be
anti-climatic. I will certainly feel a feeling of sorrow while I am there,
simply imagining what went on, but I don't see how this visit will give me
a better grasp on really understanding what it was like.
-What things, specifically, do you think are influencing your various
expectations--for example, books, courses, friends, etc.? Do you ever feel
like you "should" feel or think certain things about going to a
concentration camp? What? Why?
Like I mentioned before, previous experience with Holocaust literature and
debate have probably subconsciously affected me. In the German class I
took last semester (272) on the German reaction to the Holocaust, Jews and
World War II, we watched the sections from the seven-hour-long film "Hitler"
by Syberberg. >>
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