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- How do you feel our visit to Buchenwald compared to our visits of
Holocaust memorials in Berlin? What are the differences between a camp and
memorials?
Memorials are about the nation's fucking guilty conscience, which, as far as
I am concerned, they completely deserve, and a bunch of stumps of concrete
are not going to bring my relatives back, nor are they going to change the
predominant xenophobic and racist attitudes that still govern Germany
today. Memorials are constructs, made by the people who lived. Camps,
even reconstructed ones like Buchenwald, are the real thing to me. They are
the death, they are the evil. I don't mind the memorials, it's nice to know
that Germany pretends to care (although until they stop calling R&B
"black music" and stop marginalizing the Turks I have yet to believe them),
but it is the camps that everyone, especially every German, should see.
-Before we left, you were distressed about people possibly taking
pictures at Buchenwald. What did you find happened, as far as that is
concerned, and what was your reaction?
Well, some people brought cameras, but they only took pictures of the
model, which was fairly innocuous, and nobody took any pictures of me or
around me. So either everyone heard me complaining and hid them well or
were stopped by the rain or couldn't take pictures. Either way I wasn't
offended by anything.
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