{"id":1161,"date":"2011-09-12T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2014-01-19T13:07:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T12:07:18","slug":"die-graeuel-von-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2011\/09\/12\/die-graeuel-von-auschwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horror of Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Today was not a relaxing vacation day, but a rather sombre history lesson: I visited the <a class=\"www\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auschwitz.org\/\">Auschwitz Concentration Camp<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even though I have already been to <a class=\"www\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mauthausen-memorial.at\/\">Mauthausen Concentration Camp<\/a> (in Austria) back in school, and I therefore more or less knew what to expect, it was a very depressing visit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n  <div class=\"mixed_2to3 wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"breit_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/index_11.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/thumb\/11.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Auschwitz Concentration Camp\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Auschwitz Concentration Camp\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"hoch_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/index_13.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img192x288\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/thumb\/13.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"288\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Luggage\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Luggage\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n<br \/>\n  <div class=\"breit wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"breit_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/index_12.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/thumb\/12.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Poison gas container\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Poison gas container\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"breit_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/index_14.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/thumb\/14.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Crematory\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Crematory\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n  <div class=\"breit_re wp-caption alignright single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/index_15.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/polska\/malopolskie\/thumb\/15.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<p>Nonetheless, it was an important day: Visiting a concentration camp and learning about this dark chapter of European history is definitely something everyone should do at least once in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>  <div class=\"notice\">\nThis blog entry is an abridged version of the original entry in <a href=\"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\">German<\/a>.  <\/div>\n<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was not a relaxing vacation day, but a rather sombre history lesson: I visited the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[139,85],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diary","tag-europe","tag-unesco-world-heritage","country-pl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}