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hell

Jan 02, 2003 12:57

I'm updating from Kieran and Doug's apartment in Prague. I won't read through other Livejournals or comments right now. The dialup connection on K's laptop is really slow. Slower than usual today too. I only wanted to let everyone know I'm ok and glad I came here. I don't know when I'll update again, maybe after I'm back in Oregon ( Read more... )

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starliner January 2 2003, 04:52:30 UTC

It makes me cry also.

jakofrost January 2 2003, 07:15:15 UTC

damn...

devpreed January 2 2003, 07:31:59 UTC

Re 11: I kinda know what you mean. Senior year, in AP History, we did a project where we had to interview someone who was alive during WWII. I interviewed my grandmother, who was about ten or so when the war started.

She immigrated from Germany in 1954.

What disappointed me most about her is that there's a period of the war she just won't talk about; like... she'll talk about the first 18 months or so and then suddenly, the Americans are coming over the hill to "save her town."

But from other clues she's (inadvertently) given over the years, I know something happened. Something she's ashamed to talk about because she went along with the group and did something horrible.

And it's not so much that I'd fault her if she told me... we're all very impressionable, especially during those tumultuous 11-16 years, which was exactly when the war was; I'm just saddened by the fact that she's spent a lifetime lying to herself and everyone else about what really happened where she was, and what she really may have done.

Re: eduncan January 25 2003, 18:13:18 UTC

The more I learn about the Holocaust the more I realize how much ordinary people collaborated with it. It wasn't just a bunch of guys in Nazi uniforms. A lot of normal people helped it right along.

beethatbumbles January 2 2003, 08:26:07 UTC

It's good you cried. When I saw the Holocaust Museum three years ago in D.C. I didn't cry. I held it in and it affected me a lot. I got disturbed and couldn't sleep. But when I think about it now, I do cry..

mattmn January 2 2003, 08:58:30 UTC

This takes me back five years when I went to Germany. Our school group visited Dachau outside of Munich. It was a very moving experience that I will never forget. I was also surprised by some of the slogans around the place in German. The gates of Dachau said "Arbeit Macht Frei" or "Work will set you free."