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Places of silence - Auschwitz / Birkenau

If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)
Primo Levi

"Many people - many nations - can find themselves holding, more or less wittingly, that 'every stranger is an enemy.' 
For the most part this conviction lies deep down like some latent infection; it betrays itself only in random, disconnected acts, and does not lie at the base of a system of reason. 
But when this does come about, when the unspoken dogma becomes the major premise in a syllogism, then, at the end of the chain, there is the Lager

Here is the product of a conception of the world carried rigorously to its logical conclusion; so long as the conception subsists, the conclusion remains to threaten us. 
The story of the death camps should be understood by everyone as a sinister alarm-signal."
Se questo è un uomo 
Primo Levi

"A molti, individui o popoli, può accadere di ritenere, più o meno consapevolmente, che «ogni straniero è nemico». 
Per lo più questa convinzione giace in fondo agli animi come una infezione latente; si manifesta solo in atti saltuari e incoordinati, e non sta all’origine di un sistema di pensiero.

Ma quando questo avviene, quando il dogma inespresso diventa premessa maggiore di un sillogismo, allora, al termine della catena, sta il Lager. 
Esso è il prodotto di una concezione del mondo portata alle sue conseguenze con rigorosa coerenza: finché la concezione sussiste, le conseguenze ci minacciano. 

La storia dei campi di distruzione dovrebbe venire intesa da tutti come un sinistro segnale di pericolo."
MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP

All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz, which also became the name of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz.
MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
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MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP
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Places of silence - Auschwitz / Birkenau
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Places of silence - Auschwitz / Birkenau

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