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The two memorials in Berlin I found very effective were the Wannsee House and the
Schöneberg signs. THe pictures in the Wannsee House were very disturbing.
The Schöneberg signs were very interactive and so powerful in that way.
I don't know if an actual visit to a concentration camp is necessary--no,
I think so, but one should be old enough and have read much literature to
understand and respond to the situation, apart from personal reasons that might
make us cry. For instance, we think what it would have been like
if these were members of our own families who had to endure this torture.
That would be unbearable and would rip our insides.
Of course there are the
visitors who are exactly in this position. This is such a delicate situation.
I wish that in discussion we could be 100 percent honest, but the reality
is we cannot. We cannot express our true feelings with abandon, because
our society has been so indoctrinated in a certain reaction. I sensed this
within the group I was with. This will never happen, because everything
can be taken the wrong way. We should only listen, if we have the urge to
tell someone that what they are thinking isn't right or P.C. and develop
for OURSELVES a place in our hearts, our minds and our souls, where we stow emotions, observations, opinions, information that we
process on our own and which help us to understand this world and society--
its present, future and its past.
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