August 5
It was surreal being in the same spot where the Holocaust was thought of and planned out at the Topographie des Terrors sight. Walking down the line of images and information I kept thinking of what a tragedy the Holocaust was and it seemed that at the beginning, no one thought it would get that far, but it did. The thing that stood out the most to me was this one specific picture where a group of Nazis have a group of Jews leaning down in front of them right before the Nazis were going to shoot them, with big smiles on their faces. I couldn’t help but think about the person taking this picture. What was their relationship with the Nazis? Where they taking the picture for documentation or entertainment reasons? Did they take pictures like this often? Was this situation of humiliating and killing these innocent Jews satisfying to them? After this thought got in my head, I considered the person behind the camera while looking at the rest of the photos. These photos were extremely difficult to look at which makes me have a hard time understanding why someone would capture these disturbing images for enjoyment.
It was surreal being in the same spot where the Holocaust was thought of and planned out at the Topographie des Terrors sight. Walking down the line of images and information I kept thinking of what a tragedy the Holocaust was and it seemed that at the beginning, no one thought it would get that far, but it did. The thing that stood out the most to me was this one specific picture where a group of Nazis have a group of Jews leaning down in front of them right before the Nazis were going to shoot them, with big smiles on their faces. I couldn’t help but think about the person taking this picture. What was their relationship with the Nazis? Where they taking the picture for documentation or entertainment reasons? Did they take pictures like this often? Was this situation of humiliating and killing these innocent Jews satisfying to them? After this thought got in my head, I considered the person behind the camera while looking at the rest of the photos. These photos were extremely difficult to look at which makes me have a hard time understanding why someone would capture these disturbing images for enjoyment.
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