Bad taste perhaps, but nothing overly offensive. People tend to smile when their picture is being taken. I sense no other intention.
Posted on 11/28/2017 6:09:30 AM PST by C19fan
Jewish groups have lashed out at 'unbelievably crass' selfies taken by young British tourists at a former Nazi death camp where over a million people were murdered. The photographs, which appeared on social media, show visitors smiling and posing at Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland.
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There’s no such thing as decorum anymore.
The U.K. will get their commuppence (sp?). Londonistan is a start.
Sad, never thought the Brits would sink this low.
The death camp is where socialism leads...and ends.
Stories of crass/tacky death camp photos/selfies seem to surface every few years.
The selfie in front of the bones case is the only one I felt was offensive.
Guess you missed this one
One of the images shows a woman lifting up her leg and taking a selfie in front of a display showing hundreds of pairs of shoes taken from children before they were murdered at the camp
I didn’t find them “unbelievably crass”. We are trained from being toddlers to smile when being photographed. Sometimes we just smile because of that training. I remember being photographed smiling while at my daughter’s wake. It was the worst day of my life. I simply smiled without thinking, out of rote training, because “that’s what you do when being photographed”.
We toured Dachau and Anne Frank house and both were very solemn places, the crowds were from all over the world, and very reverent.
"Check me out Arianna! I totally feel like I'm going to the gas chamber! Like Ohmagawd!"
"I made pretend I was the Jew and Todd made pretend he was the Nazi! Ohmagawd! He captured me!"
"Auuuuuschwitz is ahhhhhhwwwwesome! Narcissism is ahhhhwesome!"
"Look at me! I've been thrown in the oven! Ahhhwesome!"
Yeah, those are pretty messed up. Especially the last one.
And in other news...
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/200_Years_Together
...is in English now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QupijTjTQQ
And nobody said anything.
NOT smiling.
Some of the pictures are extremely crass, but I wouldn’t use the word “unbelievable” for anything these days.
I visited Dachau in the late 70’s. The morning we were there a dense fog had settled in. It felt very creepy and almost seemed like I had been transported back in time. Looking at the guard tower in the swirling mist actually brought some goose bumps.
Are you suggesting by her slightly lifted leg that she’s somehow mocking the Holocaust victims? Because I simply don’t see it that way. In this one she’s not even showing her face, so it’s not a “look at me!” type of photo anyway. Too much imagination can turn any apple sour.
If taking a selfie in front of thousands of shoes removed from children who were sprayed with acid until their flesh melted from their little bones doesn't offend you, then I am sorry.
Those are shoes, not bones. And I’ve seen this room before in documentaries. There are other rooms that look like they have a million shoes in them, but the narrator of whatever documentary it was said it was only a few thousand. Probably from the last victims of Auschwitz before it was liberated.
Ok, so I went and looked at the pictures they are ‘complaining’ about. Frankly most of them I could see most anyone taking and if you read the captions they posted along with the pictures...many state what a moving experience it was to visit there.
Sure there are a few I’d say appear somewhat crass, but the rest... eh.
I agree it is bad taste, but smiling for the camera is just what people do normally. The setting is completely inappropriate, which makes it bad taste, but I don’t see them intentionally belittling the victims. And I’m tired of people pointing fingers with little evidence of guilty intent.
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