New Posts For Thread: Anyone been to Auschwitz?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitzgoing in FebWent to Bergen-Belsen quite a few years ago. If you`re near one of these places you should go, just to remind you how evil people can be, and that we should be really grateful that Germany lost.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550874789#550874789Went to Bergen-Belsen quite a few years ago. If you`re near one of these places you should go, just to remind you how evil people can be, and that we should be really grateful that Germany lost.Thu, 12 Jan 2017 07:19:10 -0600I went there and was in a group of about a dozen. The young woman guide spoke clearly, precisely, intelligently and without emotion. She gave all the time necessary to see properly what the place was all about. I think everyone should visit Auschwitzhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550874299#550874299I went there and was in a group of about a dozen. The young woman guide spoke clearly, precisely, intelligently and without emotion. She gave all the time necessary to see properly what the place was all about. I think everyone should visit AuschwitzThu, 12 Jan 2017 06:23:10 -0600agree with just checking...it was a lovely warm spring day when i visited, and not too busy...seemed very strange walking around in the sunshine, so very different from the sort of bleak,snowbound images you generally see on old newsreel or photographttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550870223#550870223agree with just checking...it was a lovely warm spring day when i visited, and not too busy...seemed very strange walking around in the sunshine, so very different from the sort of bleak,snowbound images you generally see on old newsreel or photograpWed, 11 Jan 2017 17:57:27 -0600The advantage of a guide, unless you maybe get some good guidebook or something, is they can give context about what happened here and there and so on. Like you might walk past a wall and not realise that's where they shot people or what happened inhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550869071#550869071The advantage of a guide, unless you maybe get some good guidebook or something, is they can give context about what happened here and there and so on. Like you might walk past a wall and not realise that's where they shot people or what happened inWed, 11 Jan 2017 16:21:58 -0600Can highly recommend the book "if this is a man" by Primo Levi, harrowing to say the least.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550864693#550864693Can highly recommend the book "if this is a man" by Primo Levi, harrowing to say the least.Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:56:57 -0600I worked with a woman in the late 1970's, and her husband was one of the first soldiers into Aushwitz after the war was over.He was a bandsman and not a frontline soldier, but was asked to go into the camp to help. He went into Aushwitz a fit and heahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550863427#550863427I worked with a woman in the late 1970's, and her husband was one of the first soldiers into Aushwitz after the war was over.He was a bandsman and not a frontline soldier, but was asked to go into the camp to help. He went into Aushwitz a fit and heaWed, 11 Jan 2017 06:52:19 -0600i don't even go to the corner shop anymore. chavs are everywhere.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550859447#550859447i don't even go to the corner shop anymore. chavs are everywhere.Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:07:02 -0600I've been to Krakow and agree with all said above, and the salt mines are well worth a visit. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, especially the cathedral bit at the end, take time to study the detail of everything on the walls down there, some amazing sculpthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550857307#550857307I've been to Krakow and agree with all said above, and the salt mines are well worth a visit. Pretty mind-blowing stuff, especially the cathedral bit at the end, take time to study the detail of everything on the walls down there, some amazing sculptTue, 10 Jan 2017 15:22:51 -0600Dont waste your time with a silly 'tourist trip' like shab suggests. Get out of bed early in the morning find yourself a good taxi driver and hire him for the day. Your dont need a tour guide, your driver will take you to Aushwitz then Birkenau and bhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550857265#550857265Dont waste your time with a silly 'tourist trip' like shab suggests. Get out of bed early in the morning find yourself a good taxi driver and hire him for the day. Your dont need a tour guide, your driver will take you to Aushwitz then Birkenau and bTue, 10 Jan 2017 15:17:54 -0600Ive been,its a lot to take in how evil the nazis were...https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30783543/anyone-been-to-auschwitz?post_id=550856965#550856965Ive been,its a lot to take in how evil the nazis were...Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:57:19 -0600