Bad taste perhaps, but nothing overly offensive. People tend to smile when their picture is being taken. I sense no other intention.
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.
Stories of crass/tacky death camp photos/selfies seem to surface every few years.
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!"
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.
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 was there a few years ago, buses full of students,someone lecturing, and the students busy with their cell phones or MP3s listening to music. I think they would rather be at a mall. The picture in the background is the labor camp with the Arbeit Mach Frei sign, where they held the political prisoners and some Russians. Lots of photographs posted on the walls inside the buildings but it was a memorial, so there were no re-inactors (?sp?). Some of it was props, the gas chamber and crematorium were made to resemble a combination room. It was nothing like the movies, they were brick multilevel buildings. Go down the road about 2 miles and there is the Auschwitz you see in the movies, its called Berkinau with the famous railroad track going through the front gate. Its where Mengele was located. That is the “Death” camp with the wooden long horse stabled barracks. Most of it was worn down and decaying, but the Poles seem to be rebuilding the old barracks when we were there. There was a Jewish tour group there at the time, don’t remember seeing any high schools kids. We had been to Buchenwald, there were kids there also, and again, more interested in themselves. We are doomed to repeat history because only a few pay attention. We spent a month with our friends in Europe going from Verdun to the Ukraine looking at the sights and the castles, estates, battlefields, forts, bunkers and a couple of the camps. Kids will be kids,especially young teenagers, they don’t know what the outside world is like until they experience it directly. Horse to water scenario applies. We are doomed to repeat history. Just read the news.
Somebody’s spent too much time vacuuming their grass.