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Subject: Re: PBS Frontline, May 7th, The Nazi death camps
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 16:23:31 EDT
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I also visited Dachau last summer while touring Germany. Prior to my
arrival in Munich, I didn't know that it was so close. One evening
I was waiting for the S-Bahn (metropolitan area train) and a train
marked "Dachau" went by. Needless to say, I was somewhat taken aback.

Even as I stood in front of a crematorium oven, it was very, very hard
to comprehend at a non-abstract level what had gone on there 40 years
earlier. If the camp had not been maintained, it would have been completely
impossible. This is why the camps need to be maintained forever, despite
some Germans who shrug and say that the space shouldn't be "wasted".

I also highly recommend the PBS show.

Phil