The concentration camp of Anne Frank and site of the deaths of 2,000,000 Jews, Soviets, communists, gays and other prisoners is a beautiful place now filled with fields, trees and monuments that were it not for the presence of, it would be impossible to tell the horrors of what went on there.
The stone main building is built of harsh cold concrete that radiates totalitarian authority (others took pictures which I hope to post eventaully, but for now, my words will have to suffice).
I have German in my blood. This is part of my heritage as much as slavery, capitalism, the Iraq War, the genocide of Native Americans, and every other horror. An infinite moment of silence is not long enough to reflect upon and truly appreciate the terrible things humans are capable of.
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