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After the visit, we all got back into our tour bus, and I wondered how long it would take
before everyone went back to their old selves--telling their jokes and acting
silly, vying for the center of attention. How much had we really absorbed and
how would this visit affect or lives and for how long? It's different for
everyone, I know, and maybe people who actually had relatives who were Jews
or relatives who died at a concentration camp feel the most pain. I think
that a lot of people cry because it's just death all around, and you think about
loved ones you have lost and loved ones, in general, and you don't want lose
them. How many loved ones were lost at these camps? The actual physical
cruelty people endured--do our own bodies react?
So many times I have heard that
these camps are to remind us what could happen, what human nature is capable
of--I don't think this would ever happen again--The world seems to be too much
of a community now, whereas before I just get a sense that no one else in the
world really knew what was going on in Germany, that the Germans had really
isolated themselves. The Germans who just walked by the camps and didn't
do anything--we can't condemn them, because we can't say 100 % that we can
be sure that we wouldn't have done the exact thing--we can't put ourselves in
any one else's shoes.
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