Really interesting read, liked the wide range of perspective. It's crazy how normal everything seemed and the early signs almost always explained away or ignored. Reminds me of a quote that...
Really interesting read, liked the wide range of perspective. It's crazy how normal everything seemed and the early signs almost always explained away or ignored.
The German authorities, initially at least, proved so willing to show off their concentration camp to foreigners that by the mid-1930s Dachau had become something of a tourist attraction.
But he [Michael Burn] was not the only foreign visitor at the time to shrug off the camp’s hideous implications. Antisemitism was rife among the English upper classes, as it was in France and large sections of America. By the same token, the fate of the communists, gypsies, homosexuals and “lunatics,” who ended in Dachau alongside the Jews, was by no means a burning issue for everyone.
Reminds me of a quote that explains whey it's important to stand up to any abuse to minorities because if you don't there will be no one left to stand up for you when it' comes your turn.
Really interesting read, liked the wide range of perspective. It's crazy how normal everything seemed and the early signs almost always explained away or ignored.
Reminds me of a quote that explains whey it's important to stand up to any abuse to minorities because if you don't there will be no one left to stand up for you when it' comes your turn.