The 70th anniversary since the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated takes place Tuesday, and coinciding with that is the release of this incredible footage.
Thousands of tourists, and survivors, visit the camp in Poland which is now a World Heritage Site.
During World War II, Auschwitz was the largest Nazi established camp, with more that a million people dying there, most of them Jews, between 1940 and 1945.
Starting at the railway tracks the drone takes us through the entrance where you see the sign ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ – “Work sets you free”.
Birkenau, which was erected in 1941 as a death camp, can be seen now in ruins with only the brick fireplaces and chimneys remaining. Haunting.
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My question would be, WHY is this place so perfectly preserved ? Why hasn't this place or any place like it been completely wiped from the face of this earth ?
It has been preserved as a tribute to the people murdered there
If I was a holocaust victim, there would be no way on earth that I would ever want to see those places again. They would bring back such terrifying memories upon every time I would see the place, that it would be like getting dragged back through time in an instant where the fear and terror would become real all over again. I mean are we that sick of a people in the world, that we are somehow at awe over such places like that ? How is it that we wouldn't consider the fears and anguish of the people who were rescued from there, and this when we in the world would ask them to go back and re-live the moments in speak to us or even walk through such a horrible preserved place for what our sick curiosity would want them to do for us ?
I say wipe these places and their railroad tracks leading into them off of the face of this earth finally, and only leave a fitting certain sized monument on each site, just like what we have on our lands around here for the civil war that took place. It could read on the monuments about what had happened on the piece of ground so long long ago, and it could read how people should never forget the ones who had fallen there.
To preserve these places as if they are still in operation, is a weird and intimidating thing I would imagine for the survivors, I mean if there are still any alive today.
Wouldn't it also be thought of that this could actually help the Nazi's, who had went underground for decades now, otherwise to suggest that if you mess with us (the Nazi's would use it as), then just go to these places and remember what we are capable of if you do so ? Of course they can't do such a thing on such a grand scale again, but these places as they are preserved in such a way, along with their history in such a preserved way that is found within them, (umm) well can't they also preserve the legacy and the intimidating history of those who wanted to play it all in this way just as well ?
Think about it!
I would suggest leaving nothing but beautiful meadows and fields of dreams in order to suggest that the Nazi's didn't win anything against these fallen souls, when instead these things had lead the way to paradise as would be
represented now in beautiful fields of flowers and meadows in which would then occupy the sites where these awful events had once taken place.
This would have given closure to the people that were survivors, otherwise to have finally eradicated the Nazi's completely in this symbolic way, and this by destroying these places for ever. I long for a day that the victims families can have peace come to mind, and this when they look out over the beautiful fields of flowers and meadows to remember their loved ones, and to think that it is well with their family members souls when looking at this instead of looking at the horrors that are still encapsulated in those terrifying railroad tracks, buildings and killing fields that are so perfectly preserved in that way.
