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Day 15: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Note: Please be forewarned: the details I include in this entry are at times graphic and extremely disturbing. Also, and of lesser importance: I struggled with shrinking today’s entry to the usual 500 words. Considering the topic is so intense, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Travelogue, Travelogue 2014
Tagged Berlin, Concentration Camp, Denkmal, forced marches, germany, History, Holocaust, Horror, human interaction, Human Nature, Human Value, internment camp, Juden, mass murder, Memorial, Nazi, Orianenburg, Propaganda, Soviet, Soviets, SS, Terror, USSR
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Day 8: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (on a Sunday)
Today, I’m visiting the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe,” (often referred to as the “Holocaust Memorial”). I have mixed feelings about visiting memorials like this one. The mixed feelings don’t arise from thinking I ought and that I … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2014
Tagged Atrocities, Berlin, Culture, Doubt, Evil, genocide, germany, Holocaust, human interaction, Human Nature, Human Value, mass murder, travel, Walking
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Day 4: NYC to Berlin (travel day)
Today is another travel day – this time I’ll head to JFK and then hop an AirBerlin flight to Germany. Big-city trains are dehumanizing in the same way that big-city streets are dehumanizing. Small-town folks don’t understand this, but the … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2014
Tagged big cities, buses, human interaction, intimate interaction, new york city, public transit, small towns, trains, travel, traveling, value
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