Should Nazi Extermination Camps Be Demolished ....

[naomi24]

.... and holocaust memorial exhibitions abandoned?

Is visiting these places just sick - or is it important to maintain them along with all the evidence they preserve ... lest we forget?

Have you visited such a place and, if so, your thoughts and impressions.

[BagPussAA]

I have visited nearly all of the concentration camps that still exist both from a morbid sense of the curious and a academic view point as I had written books about psychological killers and have referenced the Nazi doctors in several of them. I think they need to be there, to be viewed by generations that do not know of the cruelty that went on inside them. It is important to remember the dead otherwise they died for nothing.

[Ellipsis]

No they shouldn't be demolished or abandoned.

I think it would be good if someone developed a not-for-profit app that allowed you to visit and walk around these places virtually. Then the whole world could see them, forever more.

[sanmac]

Ellipsis, you can "visit" them in a way by using Google Maps. Expand the inset at the bottom left and click on the various blue dots to get different views:https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.0257428,19.2028,3a,75y,201.3h,73.79t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNtwwZpsVaEO6-Jj1lgx0qVvzDLy7g6wcClzJ1z!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNtwwZpsVaEO6-Jj1lgx0qVvzDLy7g6wcClzJ1z%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya188.20616-ro-0-fo100!7i9728!8i4864

[sanmac]

For some reason that didn't work. If you have "Google Maps", type in Auschwitz-Birkenau and go from there.

[Ellipsis]

Thanks sanmac, that's a good start.

Something like this is what I had in mind:

https://time.com/longform/apollo-11-moon-landing-immersive-experience/

[Jordyboy9]

Bagpuss,you say remember the dead and rightly so,
We remember the dead the millions who died in the war to end all wars world war 1, it didn’t stop the wars that came after,so my point is why keeping these camps with their ovens and gas chambers help to stop atrocities happening again?.yes we can all quote man inhumanity to man,and call the Germans our cousins ,but it could all happen again.