My photo of the birch trees at Birkenau
The Birkenau camp was named after the birch trees that grow there. These trees are a long way from the entrance to the Birkenau camp, and they don’t provide much shade.
According to a news article, which you can read in full here, the Jews are now complaining about the mist that is being sprayed on visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, in order to keep them cool. Cool as in keeping cool during hot summer days, not cool as in “being cool.”
The following quote is from the news article:
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Shower-like misters are back at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, one year after similar cooling devices were removed [at the main Auschwitz camp] after an outcry.
Installed to help visitors beat the heat at the site of the former Nazi death camp in Poland, the misters are again leading to complaints that they are reminiscent of the decoy “showers” used by the Nazis to murder Jews.
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Fake shower heads were allegedly used, during World War II, in the Auschwitz I camp in Poland and in the Mauthausen camp in Austria, but at that time, Zyklon-B gas allegedly came out of the shower heads, not water.
Last year, the mist showers were being used at the main Auschwitz camp; this year the mist showers are being used at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This makes more sense since the Birkenau camp is huge [425 acres] and one must walk a long way before finding a tree for shade.
This quote is also from the news article:
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“Showers at the entrance gate to the parking lot of Birkenau,” Ostroff wrote. “I don’t know about you but I feel uncomfortable entering a shower at the entrance of a death camp.”
During the Holocaust, victims of the Nazis’ industrialized murder machine, including millions of Jews, were told to strip before entering gas chambers that they believed were showers.
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It’s always something. If it is not one thing, it is another. There is no satisfying the Jews.
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