Sh*ts of the highest order

[stek]

Hitler's Bunker in Berlin is still there, under a child's playground not that far from Potsdamer Platz.

The authorities have recently put up a wee plaque, but other than that they've resisted making a song and dance about it for fear of it being a rallying point for neo-nazis.

Personally I think it would be better to make it better known, lest we forget....

[NickFitz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8419948.stm

Been here a few times as I used to work close by - sometimes people disgust even me.

Found again, cut into three pieces

Five arrested; those found guilty of the theft should be subjected to the harshest prison regime Poland has to offer, whilst having it constantly made clear to them how grateful they should be that they can't be sent to the dreadful place they desecrated

[threaded]

I worked in Katowice 12 years ago for about 6 months and

You're not a Tandem Non-Stop guy by any chance?

[NotAllThere]

Shouldn't Auschwitz be left to rot anyway? I'm not really sure what message is being sent by maintaining it.

The message being sent by maintaining it is "Don't let this ever happen again". Simples.

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Before they tested the first atom bomb, it was determined that there was a 50/50 chance of it igniting the Earths atmosphere and destroying all life on Earth..........................................

No, the possibility was suggested and seriously considered, then disproved by Bethe, as the fusion reaction under consideration is not self sustaining. And the chance was never considered 50/50, it was a "small" possibility by Tellar, who it was later found out, was wrong.

[Diver]

The message being sent by maintaining it is "Don't let this ever happen again". Simples.

No, the possibility was suggested and seriously considered, then disproved by Bethe, as the fusion reaction under consideration is not self sustaining. And the chance was never considered 50/50, it was a "small" possibility by Tellar, who it was later found out, was wrong.

Must double check my Google sources in future

But a small possibility? which they found out was wrong after the set off the first bomb!!!!!

[Tarquin Farquhar]

The message being sent by maintaining it is "Don't let this ever happen again". Simples.

No, the possibility was suggested and seriously considered, then disproved by Bethe, as the fusion reaction under consideration is not self sustaining. And the chance was never considered 50/50, it was a "small" possibility by Tellar, who it was later found out, was wrong.

This is the internet, don't clog it up with facts




Auschwitz: just go and see it before you judge. No matter how much you enjoy travelling, it will stay with you as the one trip that you wished to be over soon. It is strangely peaceful. Outside in the silence of the open plain, wildflowers on the banks now and no hungry faces in striped pyjamas staring from behind the electrified wire, it brings you to a kind of reflection quite different from the feeling of having photographs of the camp thrust in your face from a book or an article. It comes back to me now. (long pause). I am glad it is still there.

[Coalman]

This is the internet, don't clog it up with facts




Auschwitz: just go and see it before you judge. No matter how much you enjoy travelling, it will stay with you as the one trip that you wished to be over soon. It is strangely peaceful. Outside in the silence of the open plain, wildflowers on the banks now and no hungry faces in striped pyjamas staring from behind the electrified wire, it brings you to a kind of reflection quite different from the feeling of having photographs of the camp thrust in your face from a book or an article. It comes back to me now. (long pause). I am glad it is still there.

Couldn't agree more.

Visited in 1992 when interailing around Europe.
I've been lucky to travel to some amazing places in this world but Auschwitz is one of the most powerfull memories I have.

Very haunting. No film / documentary can recreate the atmosphere of that death machine.

I'm off for a quiet coffee now.

[RichardCranium]

Shouldn't Auschwitz be left to rot anyway? I'm not really sure what message is being sent by maintaining it.

My parents took me to Belsen when I was a teenager. They did not say a word, they just left me to make my own mind up.

I have not been to Auschwitz, but the message that Belsen gives out is: "People like you did this. And you could do it again."

No books or web sites or TV programmes have affected me the way that visit to Belsen did. I have no problem with such places being kept intact if it prevents them being newly built.

[Diver]

My parents took me to Belsen when I was a teenager. They did not say a word, they just left me

FTFY

[NotAllThere]

...I have no problem with such places being kept intact if it prevents them being newly built.

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