The simple memorials do not talk to us in the same manner as the camps do. Also the memorials set us apart from the actual sites of terror and help us to clean up the act in a peculiar way. At the memorials we are not forced to deal with as much "memory" or guilt and responsibility as we do at the concentration camps. Going to the Neue Wache, for instance, was completely different from going to Buchenwald. At die Neue Wache I felt almost nothing in comparison to the grief and discomfort I felt at Buchenwald.

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