I went to Auschwitz today. You prepare yourself mentally for it, but there’s things there that maybe you didn’t know about, such as a room about a 100’ long x 15’ wide X 6’ tall of hair. It’s hard not to be moved.
Kids ruin the shit out of it though. Several times kids were laughing and giggling as we moved through our tour. It was highly disrespectful.
It's a very small world apparently; I stopped in on the 0830 English speaking tour while traveling between duty locations.
It's a heavy place to process, and if I had been there as a 11-14 year old kid (which a bunch of the Polish ones looked to be) I'd probably have been one of those idiots goofing off, simply because it's so upsetting to listen to the events that took place.