{"id":3639,"date":"2018-11-10T14:29:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2018-11-10T20:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T18:32:13","slug":"auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each of these sites is really quite different from the others. Here I stood in line to receive a time-stamped ticket. I now wait 45 minutes to stand in line for my allotted entrance time. For hours this morning I was alone at Birkenau, meeting only occasional individuals or pairs. We trudged past each other with wordless grim-faced gazes and disappeared back into the fog. Thursday I hiked through the woods around Sobib\u00f3r by GPS, watching and listening for guards. Something is very wrong here. I keep looking at that snack bar, but I’m not going to put its photo on my blog. I just can’t do that.<\/p>\n

The middle of the middle placard.<\/p>\n

What does it mean to be an adult, to smile and make rabbit ears over a friend’s head while having your photo taken under the Arbeit Macht Frei sign at Auschwitz?<\/p>\n

There are crowds walking about with audio tour headsets on. Each time I’ve tried that – most recently at the Solidarity Center in Gdansk – I don’t like it and take the thing off. It turns me into a voyeur, consuming packaged entertainment, listening to someone else’s thoughts, not my own.<\/p>\n

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Each of these sites is really quite different from the others. Here I stood in line to receive a time-stamped ticket. I now wait 45 minutes to stand in line for my allotted entrance time. For hours this morning I … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}