The 63rd Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Seesul, do you have any shots of the outside of the gas chambers? I have read many times about the Allies being chastised for not bombing them. I have also heard they were no bigger than the size of 2 tennis courts and to do so was outside the accuracy/ability of the airplanes of the day (either too far to fly or too small a target for those that could make it). Not that I want to get that topic going, but I would like to see if you have any pictures of the outside of the chambers.
 
Good pictures, thank you for sharing. I visited Dachau in 1995. One of my grandfather's close friends was sent there, but fortunately he survived, though barely. They said he was a walking skeleton we he came back after the war.

The one thing that really gave me the creeps, for lack of a better word, were the railroad tracks leading to the camp. There were a few other people there during my visit, but was very quiet. It felt like a communal experience with the dead, it's really frightening, though it felt like relief at the same time. It's very hard to describe. I hope to visit Auschwitz someday.

I also remember feeling the same when walking through Oradour-sur-Glane. For anyone interested in WW 2 history, I don't think a visit to Europe can be complete without visiting one of these awful places. They must be seen.
 

one of the pictures you´re asking for was already posted, but here is the same with one more. The last one shows the hole in the roof, where the Germans threw the CYCLON B gas through...
 

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Let me know when you got Berchtesgarden. I am planning on driving down there several times this year. It is so beautiful in Berchtesgarden.

If you are going to be there when I am, we need to meet up and drink a Weizenbier.
 
seesul said:
one of the pictures you´re asking for was already posted, but here is the same with one more. The last one shows the hole in the roof, where the Germans threw the CYCLON B gas through...
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Thanks Seesul, I appreciate it. That is one small target. Thought it would be a bit bigger. Can't see how somebody using a Norden would hit that from 20K.

Great shots. Distrubing but needed to be seen. Thanks for posting them.
 
DerAdlerIstGelandet said:
Let me know when you got Berchtesgarden. I am planning on driving down there several times this year. It is so beautiful in Berchtesgarden.

If you are going to be there when I am, we need to meet up and drink a Weizenbier.
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Jawohl, abgemacht!
How far away is from you? Some 600 km from me...Think in May or June, when there´s a nice weather...because in July there´s another trip planned- Flying Legends in Duxford...if my wife and Good let me go...
 
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