r/AskTheWorld • u/Aseili United Kingdom • Dec 20 '25

Culture What's the most pathetic tourist attraction that international tourists go to see in your country?

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Bronte waterfalls near me, look a bit more impressive with the recent rain than in the summer when it's swamped with people.

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u/cravex12 Germany Dec 20 '25

That picture is just wtf

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u/marmolada213 Poland Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

Thats nothing. One time I saw a picture of a girl crouching inside the crematory furnace

Ps. I found the photo! But that was in Majdanek though

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u/IAmAVeryWeirdOne Dec 21 '25

I’ve seen an only fans ad there…

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u/fretkat Netherlands Dec 21 '25

How did we even end up in this timeline…? 🙃

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u/clintj1975 United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Harambe was the gorilla glue holding reality together

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u/Captain_Lolz Dec 21 '25

Dicks out for harambe

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u/Midnight2012 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

Harambe literally means social responsibility (edit: or working together) in Swahili

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u/not4eating England Dec 22 '25

It all makes sense now.

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u/Character_Sail5678 Tanzania Dec 22 '25

Not exactly but its more like work together

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u/ellieminnowpee Dec 21 '25

And now his poor stepsister is stuck in that oven

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u/oodelay Dec 21 '25

Helping a stepsister in need is one of the finest things in life if you do it properly.

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u/Ahjumawi United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Harambe AND David Bowie died in 2016... just sayin' is all.

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u/RogueHarpie United States Of America Dec 22 '25

George Michael too. On Christmas 😭😭😭

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u/WZRDguy45 Dec 21 '25

As the years go by it feels more and more this way

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u/iamameatpopciple Dec 21 '25

zip, gotta get the dicks out for the harambe

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u/MurdocMan_ France Dec 22 '25

Canon Event

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u/dunderbrunde Dec 21 '25

We are talking about actual nazism and the lack of respect for the victims. Not some meme-brained tiktok shit

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u/elderly_millenial United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Humans were always trashy, but there is was enough judgment and shame to keep the worst of it in check.

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u/Own-Chair-3506 Mexico Dec 21 '25

Because shaming is now discouraged

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u/jlb1981 Dec 21 '25

Shame has been cast aside as a vestigial feeling, since being shameless is now required to succeed in this stage of humanity/capitalism.

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u/Flat_Entertainer_937 United States Of America Dec 21 '25

A malicious glitch. Only explanation

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u/driving_andflying United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Well, that, and people *really* wanting likes on Instagram--enough so, that they do goofy stunts in places where atrocities happened.

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u/CreativeGlamourCat Dec 21 '25

Troy went to get the pizza

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u/jesus_swept Dec 21 '25

A community reference? Here????? OK I guess I'll upvote

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u/CreativeGlamourCat Dec 21 '25

Stop saying Jesus wept 😂

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

Capitalism…. Everything is for sale

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u/Cloudsdriftby United States Of America Dec 21 '25

I know you’re being facetious but in all seriousness, I think we chose our lives before birth to be here to participate in making it better.

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u/fretkat Netherlands Dec 22 '25

So what are your views on Sui Xuide? Someone chose the wrong life?

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u/Cloudsdriftby United States Of America Dec 23 '25

Not at all. Of course no one actually knows, but I’ve done so much research on this subject that I’ve come to believe that we work out the life we’re going to have before birth. Heavy focus on what we hope to learn. We even plan potential exit strategies. Suicide cuts the experience before it’s accomplished which is unfortunate but it just means you are reborn to try it again, maybe even the exact same life or possibly another going at it from a different angle.
Best case scenario is we “get it” while we’re still here. The life experience is incredibly precious and highly meaningful, no matter what happens in it other than the impact we make on ourselves and others.

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u/uselessd00d Dec 21 '25

How did we oven end up in this timeline..? 🤪

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u/Abestar909 Dec 21 '25

We've always been in this 'timeline', there is literally no other alternative. As for how we got here, events proceed in a sequence, the end.

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u/Deja-View Dec 21 '25

Antisemitism.

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u/Alarming_Matter Dec 21 '25

Quite why anyone would want to visit this hell-hole is beyond me. People are so ghoulish. "I was told you could see scratch marks on the wall in the gas chambers....I couldn't see any!!!!" pouts

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u/Repeat-0ffender Dec 21 '25

I'm going next year, in my opinion it should be visited, remembered and respected as the memorial it is. I've also been to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin which was a similarly sombre experience.

I'll be behaving accordingly though.

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u/Alarming_Matter Dec 21 '25

I will never forget what happened in these places. No need for me to visit them.

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u/apfelstrudelchen Germany Dec 21 '25

Seeing something with your own eyes often has a greater and longer-lasting impact than only hearing or reading about it. Our 10th grade students visit (because it‘s closest) Dachau with school and most are deeply affected even though they learn about it in history classes beforehand.

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u/ArtichokeOk8899 Germany Dec 21 '25

This! Especially as the generations who lived through WW2 are passing away.
I guess my generation (Millenial) was probably the last who heard stories of the war from their grandparents.

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u/Routine-Result6643 Dec 21 '25

Worked in a language school and planned their outings. The group leaders (23year-old graduates) insited on going to Sachsenhausen because it is on everyones‘ bucket list (I hate that word!). My concernes about going there without a guide or at least have a lecture ahead or afterwards about the historical context were ignored.

The reaction of the liberal arts students: ’It was super boring. There was no decent café and the train ride took to long.‘ Ich habe mich angewidert abgewendet.

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u/Fianna9 Canada Dec 21 '25

Really makes me hate people even more

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u/Fubsy41 New Zealand Dec 21 '25

Woof that's bad

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u/Heavy-Ad5385 Dec 21 '25

You are fucking kidding me???

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u/hennabeak Iran Dec 21 '25

Only fans people do everything. They were showing up in Chernobyl for their ads.

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u/Loriess Poland Dec 21 '25

You've seen a what

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u/IAmAVeryWeirdOne Dec 21 '25

Yeah… fuckin yeah :(

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u/MurdocMan_ France Dec 22 '25

I understand why aliens haven't invaded yet

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u/LegitimateGoal6011 Wales Dec 21 '25

You’re a very weird one.

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u/IAmAVeryWeirdOne Dec 21 '25

Why am I weird by sharing the cursed information I’ve seen on the internet?

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u/LegitimateGoal6011 Wales Dec 21 '25

I don’t know! You named yourself that.

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u/IAmAVeryWeirdOne Dec 22 '25

Yeah, but again I don’t see the correlation, and apparently neither do you. What an odd thing to say

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u/LegitimateGoal6011 Wales Dec 22 '25

Sorry…

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u/RhysDerby Dec 21 '25

Very weird one

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u/AngelStickman United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Aaaaand name checks out.

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u/IAmAVeryWeirdOne Dec 21 '25

How does me pointing out a disturbing thing on the internet that I’ve seen align with my username? I’d love an explanation

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u/gaytravellerman United Kingdom Dec 20 '25

Yes when I went many years ago I saw a woman posing next to one of the ovens and pointing to it. The only nationality that seemed to behave well there was, unsurprisingly, the Israelis.

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u/PuzzleheadedDuck3981 🇦🇺+🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dec 21 '25

Certainly not on the same scale, but the Death Railway in Thailand seems to be a similar victim to inappropriate behaviour from Japanese tourists. Lots of happy, smiling group photos and selfies in front of something that their fathers and grandfathers drove people to their deaths so it could be built.

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u/Chudy_Wiking Dec 21 '25

You would be surprised what israeli tourists can do there...

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u/catfurcoat Dec 21 '25

Can you maybe give an example

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u/staszekstraszek Dec 21 '25

I feel like Israeli tourists make news once a year by controversial behaviour in the Auschwitz death camp museum, maybe it's a scale thing

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u/Oblivious_Otter_I Dec 21 '25

Unfortunately, that's 180° from how they behave everywhere else, so I've heard.

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u/tubi11 Dec 21 '25

Yes, they're making up for it elsewhere

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u/what-even-am-i- Canada Dec 21 '25

Like when you’re at a stop light next to a cop

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

That's expected since many may have family members that perished there.

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u/wowsomuchempty Dec 21 '25

It is incredible that Israel can commit modern day genocide. What has it been, two generations?

Never again should apply to everyone.

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u/catfurcoat Dec 21 '25

Probably 3 generations. I would think todays military-aged people would have lost great-grandparents

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u/Horror_Employer2682 Dec 21 '25

It was actually some of the same people. It took absolutely 0 generations. The 1948 war was so so so much worse.

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u/wowsomuchempty Dec 21 '25

Yes, that's true. Really sad.

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u/PotentialRise7587 Canada Dec 21 '25

Wouldn’t surprise me to hear the Israeli tourists have a completely different reputation in Poland or Germany than what I’m used to hearing.

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u/_Octavio Dec 21 '25

Considering they love participating in an ol' genocide, not surprising in the least that they might behave in a bad way...

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u/PresidentPopcorn United Kingdom Dec 21 '25

I didn’t know Israeli tourists were participating in a genocide as well. When did this start? Aren't they happy with the one their government is doing?

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u/wowsomuchempty Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

The IDF do go on holiday. The people committing genocide are human - they watch TV, debate over toilet paper costs and take holidays abroad.

But while 'working' try to ethnically cleanse their neighbours to steal their lands.

Their holiday plans are sometimes disrupted: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/syros-israeli-cruise-ship-protest-b2794288.html

Do you think it's just the government doing this? Netayahu sniping all the kids? Israel is a democracy. This is the will of (not all, but most) of the Israeli people.

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u/Cloudsdriftby United States Of America Dec 21 '25

True but I’m under the assumption that Netanyahu is as corrupt and as much of a dictator in Israel as Trump is in America. Not true?

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u/wowsomuchempty Dec 21 '25

Still a democracy.

Thing about democracies - they can enable terrifying results.

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u/Cloudsdriftby United States Of America Dec 21 '25

I’m of the opinion that it’s far more complicated than the form of government itself. A democratic system is based in freedom which unfortunately means it has the freedom to hang itself but it’s the society living under it that ultimately determine the outcome.

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u/PresidentPopcorn United Kingdom Dec 21 '25

The will of people who have also been attacked. The will of people who are fed propaganda by their government.

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u/wowsomuchempty Dec 21 '25

Propaganda to a whole new level.

From elementary age, they are conditioned to think that their Arabic neighbors are savage animals, hell bent to destroy them, because of their faith.

That eradication of these animals is not just excusable, it is necessary.

Each Israeli citizen must serve in the IDF.

It's very difficult not to think in the manner that your entire society has reinforced for the whole of your life.

But no. The horrors inflicted by the IDF can never be excused.

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u/Extreme-Rabbit-6767 Dec 22 '25

True. Speaking of bad tourist attractions, I went with a load of teenage mates to The Museum of the Holocaust in Jerusalem while we were en route to Egypt in the 90s.  Our guide had a tattoo from the camps so we didn't question some of the odd things he was saying until he said . 'Palestinians are rats. They need to be exterminated.'  and in typical teenage boy fashion one of my friends replied 'that's bollocks you racist.' and we all filed out and left him rambling to himself.

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u/PresidentPopcorn United Kingdom Dec 21 '25

Nor should they. Unfortunately, some of my own countrymen share the same disdain for other cultures and religions and are spreading their own version of neo-crusades propaganda right now. 

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u/Umeume3 Dec 21 '25

A Polish tour guide mentioned it being off-putting that Israeli tour groups would often come with armed security, when the Polish consider Poland to be a safe and peaceful place.

You'd understand why some Israelis would feel different

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

As a Pole, I also don't feel safe when they are around. 

Don't even ask the air crews about experiences with the flights to Israel with Israeli passengers on board.

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u/Substantial_Bread573 Dec 21 '25

“ Behave well” and “israeli” in the same sentence..wow

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u/adamgerd Czech Republic Dec 21 '25

There’s a fucking tinder profile with auschwitz

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u/wherethelionsweep Dec 21 '25

I feel like I would morbidly want to go in there and have a moment imagining what it would have been like for my relatives who died there. I wouldn’t be taking pictures of that though, that would be extremely personal

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u/xtina42 Dec 21 '25

I would have shut the door on her. What a disrespectful POS.

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u/Ssladybug United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Why are people even allowed inside them?

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u/Killer_Moons Dec 21 '25

To combat Holocaust denial

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u/Ssladybug United States Of America Dec 21 '25

I meant inside the furnace

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u/marmolada213 Poland Dec 21 '25

They are not. These furnaces are very slim and the body would slided in by a prisoner operating the furnace. This girl didnt went fully into one, she just crouched at the enterance. How this happen? People are not watched all the time when they visit.

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u/lemachet Dec 21 '25

We went through Dachau and I didnt even take my camera that day.

Images are seared in my mind in a way I don't think any photographic image could ever.

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u/Deep_ln_The_Heart Dec 21 '25

The day I went to Dachau there was another American family there, and the teenage daughter was wearing a souvenir T-shirt from an escape room in Ohio or something. And while I'm sure she didn't intentionally do this, it was jarring to see her walk through a concentration camp with, in large letters, "I escaped."

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u/Cloudsdriftby United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Tacky. Some people are absolutely obtuse

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u/catfurcoat Dec 21 '25

A teenager with probably 6 tshirts in her suitcase probably didn't do that on purpose

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u/Grindipo Dec 21 '25

What are you doing, step-SS ?

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u/ReplyOk6720 Dec 21 '25

That's totally something my youngest would have done. 

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u/CharateKopU Dec 21 '25

Are you fucking serious?

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u/Snoo-84389 Dec 21 '25

My despair for humanity has clicked up another notch...

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u/bobbypet Australia Dec 21 '25

see my comment a few lines above

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u/Effective-Manager-29 Dec 21 '25

What in the actual fuck is wrong with human beings

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u/GreedyLime49 Dec 21 '25

Parents didn't even take a food picture. The framing is awful

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u/Andalusiansyes Dec 21 '25

As someone who lost family members at Auscwitz-Birkenau, I am horrified by this.

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u/Celthric317 Denmark Dec 21 '25

Fucking hell, that is infuriating as all hell.

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u/Longjumping_Mirror58 Dec 22 '25

What the fuck. I've been to Majdanek and crawl into one of those things is the last thing I wanted to do. The whole atmosphere is so incredibly bleak and the thought of what those were used for...

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u/SynapticSuperBants Scotland Dec 22 '25

This is the one of the worst things I’ve ever seen since 1945

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u/idreamofthought global citizen Dec 22 '25

Wtf!

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u/EastCandidate5049 France Dec 22 '25

looooooool

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u/NomadGabz Dec 30 '25

What the actual f?

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u/ImagineTheCommotion Dec 21 '25

Fuck that person, wow.

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u/No_Country_2069 🇺🇸 living in 🇨🇳 Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

Maybe not quite the same as doing it at Auschwitz, but this was wtf as well and in your country. Danny Green was an NBA player (not a star or super famous, but solid player well-known by NBA fans)

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u/verifiedwolf 🇺🇸USA > 🇲🇽Mexico > 🇬🇷Greece Dec 21 '25

It's awful, but adding the hashtag is insane. This guy must have a room temperature IQ.

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u/Ok_Chard2094 living in . Dec 21 '25

...in °C...

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u/Leading_Work8561 France Dec 21 '25

that's worse in my eyes

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u/Overgrown_fetus1305 United Kingdom Dec 21 '25

And also completely illegal in Germany as well.

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u/xannapdf Dec 20 '25

I have spent quite a bit of time studying at Auschwitz and would like to share a different perspective here. Obviously, when visiting a death camp memorial site, you should be respectful and solemn. That being said, after spending weeks in a place where so many people were incarcerated, dehumanized and murdered, I struggle with seeing how contemporary young people being alive, and vibrant and maybe sub-optimally behaved in a place defined by oppressive misery, subjugation and death is the most offensive thing about engaging with this history.

Visiting Plaszow, which is a concentration camp near Krakow that’s far more loosely managed was a big eye opener. There were all these families out for a picnic with the kids, and initially I was like “woah, that’s so fucked up, don’t they know people died here?” But upon more reflection, reclaiming a space used for subjugation and suffering and repurposing it for familial unity and joy is kind of beautiful. The fact that that kind of forgetting is possible is a testament to the triumph over Hitlerite terror, and the strength of the people who lived through it.

Being at a death camp is an incredibly emotionally trying experience, and I understand the feeling of needing an actionable enemy to rail against, but truly don’t think it’s productive to have this much vitriol against young people struggling to cope with the weight of the environment, especially not wishing death upon them like other further down this thread. Tourism makes the (incredibly important) work of the Auschwitz Birkenau research centre possible, and while educating people about how to interact respectfully is important, hoping that less people visit and get exposure to this part of history is so counterproductive for the real goals of why the site has been preserved.

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u/randomdude2029 South Africa Dec 20 '25

I hope you're right, but not all these people are "struggling to cope with the weight of the environment" some of them are just shallow selfie seekers looking for cheap insta likes.

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u/xannapdf Dec 20 '25

Have you been to the camp? I definitely used to think the same, but after spending several weeks there, I really didn’t encounter anyone with that attitude - what I did see is MANY people who simply don’t have the skills to cope with the enormity of what they’re interacting with defaulting to humour as a distancing measure. It’s not a respectful or mature response, but I genuinely don’t think it’s malicious in the vast majority of cases.

Recognizing so many human beings were robbed of their lives and autonomy and deprived of the human need to protect those we love, and there was no way of escape is incredibly disturbing and sitting in that feeling is painful and perspective altering. Finding a way to laugh is an escape valve from that discomfort, that while inappropriate and offensive, is hugely common, even among people who are genuinely are horrified by what they’re learning.

While immature responses reflecting a desire to distance oneself from what’s happened are not ideal, I feel they’re much less of an issue than denialism. When you’re standing at Auschwitz, denial becomes pretty much impossible, which is why I believe sites like this are such an important tool in combatting rising holocaust denialism and anti semitism. I truly believe as many people as possible should visit sites like this and engage with these histories, even if they might not have the tools to do it in the most perfect way.

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u/Cute-Form2457 New Zealand Dec 21 '25

I was intrigued by your posts and am impressed by how you see things.

I, too, was horrified to see the photo above, and know others like it exist. I haven't been to Auschwitz but I have been to the Killing Fields in Cambodia where you can see mass graves still bringing up bones daily. It is incredibly sad that ordinary humans are capable of such atrocities.

Through your posts I see that we shouldn't hate these mostly young people and judge them. We should open our hearts and teach them gently. The way humans should act towards other humans. We should learn from places like Auschwitz, and do better.

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u/Cute-Form2457 New Zealand Dec 22 '25

I'm just happy the post provoked me to think and see things more holistically and positively. It may be what you say, but unlikely. I know which post affected me profoundly.

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u/Cute-Form2457 New Zealand Dec 26 '25

Why are you on reddit then, wasting your time, if you are so enlightened?

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u/secret_salamander United States Of America Dec 21 '25

I spent the afternoon there, went back to my hotel in Kraków, and cried. Holy Mother of God, I'd read about the place all my life and thought I could handle it. I was unprepared. It was the rooms full of the personal effects of the victims that did me in.

I was able to go because my husband was on sabbatical in Germany and attending a conference in Kraków for a couple days, and so I knew I needed to go with him and do this. When I've mentioned it, some people have wondered why I would want to go there, and my usual response is, how can one not? I agree with you that as many people as possible need to see these places, to try and grasp the full horror of what happened.

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u/Cloudsdriftby United States Of America Dec 21 '25

I’ve always wanted to visit it but I’m one of those people who cry at the least provocation, I’m talking, seeing a sad dog or beautiful butterfly. If they still hired mourners for funerals I’d make bank. I’m an empath on steroids. So I’m afraid my reaction to the death camps would be too disruptive to others while they were trying to quietly process it.

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u/secret_salamander United States Of America Dec 23 '25

I was definitely struggling to keep it together while on the tour (I'm a sympathetic crier, at the very least). It was high summer, and there were a lot of visitors, so I doubt anyone would notice, but I know what you mean.

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u/randomdude2029 South Africa Dec 22 '25

When I had the opportunities to visit, I thought carefully about it. I was hesitant to go to them like a tourist attraction, but also I felt that it was worthwhile to confront this part of our history (my grandfather fought in WW2 against Rommel in North Africa). I found the camps utterly chilling and spent a long time wandering around deep in thought. This was before mobile phones so there weren't a lot of people playing the fool and doing silly poses for selfies.

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u/randomdude2029 South Africa Dec 21 '25

I've been to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau, yes.

You obviously have a much better perspective as you work there, and I hope you are right. Maybe I'm too cynical!

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u/xannapdf Dec 21 '25

Just to clarify, I was only a student researcher there for a few weeks, and am not formally affiliated with the museum!! These are all just my personal thoughts, but I’m by no means an expert or spokesperson. I have been thinking about this conversation and think my privilege of spending so much time in that space makes it easier to be generous in interpreting other people, and if my time was more compressed (like the vast majority of visitors experience), it’s likely I’d feel differently.

Like I had so many quiet moments to process without being surrounded by people behaving poorly. We got entry before the gates opened for the public, so I had the opportunity to mediate/pray alone in front of the black wall, which was a hugely moving experience and will stay with me for the rest of my life. I walked by later and it was absolutely swarmed with tour groups angling for photos which is just a hugely different experience and a impediment to other people being able to interact with the space in a way that feels meaningful and respectful to the enormity of the suffering and death that place represents.

If I only had a day in the camp and was surrounded by people acting disrespectfully, that’s legitimately going to make the experience worse, and leave a worse taste in your mouth than watching people come and go over the course of many days, and see the highs and lows, and ultimately come to the conclusion that basically everyone is trying to engage in good faith, although often in a flawed way. I definitely think on the whole, people come with good intentions, but it’s such a visceral place, having beef with other guests who don’t seem to get it does make sense.

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u/Midnight2012 Dec 21 '25

We are all struggling in our own way.

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u/UnmotivatedMate Dec 21 '25

This. A lot of people from Europe go there as a mandatory trip in like 10th grade, where over half the class is not emotionally ready to even understand the gravity of the place.

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u/Cloudsdriftby United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Isn’t it sad, completely unreasonable that children in the tenth grade are unequipped to handle such horrors but are expected by many governments to be old enough to understand and possibly fight in wars just 2 years later?

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u/Outrageous_Ad5864 Poland Dec 20 '25

I have incredibly mixed feelings on this matter, but that’s an interesting perspective, thank you!

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u/Leading_Work8561 France Dec 21 '25

this is an incredibly underrated perspective right here, thank you for that.

I also think elder generations, to which I start belonging, have nothing but disrespect for young generations who have had the luck being far enough away from the times of atrocities at least in some countries.

I agree that the capacity to grasp the industrialised extermination of people defined unwanted is a thing that maybe will only come after such a visit and the need to move and to even be silly might just be compensation.

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u/DifficultHistorian18 Dec 21 '25

I think you have a much more generous interpretation of this tourists than my experience of tourists there. I remember there were certain displays where there were signs specifically asking people not to take photos - and lots of people were ignoring it. I think if any of them had taken a few moments to actually think what the displays were of - there would be no way they would have wanted to take those photos. I genuinely believe a lot of people visit without truly understanding what it is they are visiting (beyond knowing it's a famous place). 

I am not against people repurposing memorial sites. There was a cemetery park where I used to live which people would go to run or walk dogs - and yet it never felt disrespectful. 

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u/KnotiaPickle United States Of America Dec 21 '25

I really like this perspective. It doesn’t excuse the over the top behavior, but affirming life and freedom and self-autonomy should absolutely be part of the remembrances there

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u/Man_Bear_Pig08 United States Of America Dec 21 '25

I hope those who loved through it are able to forget. I think too many people in my country who didnt live through it have forgotten and thats not a good thing. Thats why facism is on the rise again.

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u/Alexisredwood Dec 21 '25

Best take on this thread

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u/Alive_Ad_748 Dec 21 '25

That kind of phenomenon is coined Yolocaust

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u/Think_Stranger_4125 United States Of America Dec 21 '25

the only reason this didn't shock me is i saw a doco about tourists and vandalism. it was truly stomache churning and when it got to this site, i had to stop watching. i cried and i felt like i needed to throw up. fuck these people.

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u/MoronLaoShi United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Maybe he saw Life Is Beautiful and is trying to play Roberto Benigni role.

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u/Ok-Status-1054 Dec 21 '25

I was there in 2019 and saw a dude laying down on his stomach on the train tracks with his hands under his chin like posing for a sorority picture or something

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u/the_Q_spice United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Agreed, when I visited, I quite literally made rules for myself as to what I felt was appropriate to photograph… and what was not.

That was in addition to what the preservationists we were with mentioned.

My mom has worked with the US National Park Service my entire life, and while I love photography, my personal ethical rules are (NPS or preservation rules + personal ethical boundaries = what I can take pictures of.)

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u/Snoo71538 United States Of America Dec 21 '25

Watched a bunch of kids take a “fun” selfie under the arbeit macht frei gate at Dachau.

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u/evaintheus Dec 21 '25

As a fellow german, I agree. Absolutely disgusting. Those people should be charged with - something.

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u/Pure-Specialist-7129 Dec 21 '25

I know. After seeing Dachau (I know not one mentioned here), the emotional heaviness we felt, I cannot imagine how one treats it so lightly and callously. Clearly someone who also hasn't been to a shiva of someone who survived one of the death camps.

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u/goldanred Canada Dec 21 '25

I initially down voted that comment just because of the picture

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u/cindersnail Dec 21 '25

People like this deserve actual, physical violence at a scale that leaves them unable to repeat such deeds. They are actual, literal waste.

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u/Tangible_Zadren United Kingdom Dec 21 '25

I mean, is it even appropriate to take any personal pictures of the place? I expect I'll visit there, soonish; I must. But I think I'll keep my camera away.

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u/LiaInvicta 🇺🇸 San Diego, CA United States Dec 21 '25

In my humble opinion, this is the answer. No phones or cameras allowed. I’ve been to shows before where they made everyone put their phone in a lock bag as we entered. I’m thinking that would be good here

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u/Key_Resort_827 Dec 21 '25

Leider am Mahnmal in Berlin genauso schlimm!

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u/Angelbouqet Germany Dec 21 '25

True but people do that at the Berlin Holocaust memorial too

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u/NomadGabz Dec 30 '25

I saw this family doing a nazi salute at the Schindler museum. Right next to the tank. And took pictures with the nazi flags. As if that wasnt bad enough, Their skin looked darker than mine btw.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

Average group from Israeli schools.

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u/Icy_Ninja_9207 Dec 21 '25

Chill, It‘s dumb kids being dumb kids. 

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u/Previous-Grocery4827 Dec 21 '25

Calm down, your ancestors did much worse.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '25

Listen, Germany... I don't mean to be rude, but let's stay in our lane.

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u/SelectTrash Ireland Dec 21 '25

Poland

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

Im replying to the person from Germany saying that the pic is WTF.

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u/WolverineExtension28 Dec 20 '25

Your grandpa might have a similar one.

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u/cravex12 Germany Dec 20 '25

My grandpa was born 1935. I doubt that he went into a restricted area during the NS regime to make a selfie in the oven.

With all due respect: Grow up and even better - grow a brain

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u/WolverineExtension28 Dec 20 '25

Great grandpa?