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-What was your reaction to our visit to Buchenwald?
It was very bleak and dreary when we went, and at first I was thinking
that it was a good day to be seeing a concentration camp, but then I
started thinking about how there must have been days like that when there
were actual people there, and they probably didn't have a warm coat like
mine, and that got me upset. And then I just didn't feel like talking after
we'd been there. It was a weird type of feeling.
How were expectations of the visit met or not met?
Well, I guess that I didn't really know what to expect from the visit, so I
didn't have any expectations, so they couldn't be met or not met.
- At this point, what do you feel the purpose(s) of concentration camp
visits are?
Well, I think that the purpose is different for different people. For the
Germans, they want to prove that they are learning about their past and are
working so that it won't happen again. For foreigners, it's also a
learning experience, but it's learning about another country's past, not
their own.
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