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Officials put misting stations outside Auschwitz during heatwave - Ppl offended
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:05 am
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:05 am
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When the management at the Auschwitz Memorial installed sprinklers outside the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, they thought they would create some cool comfort for visitors. Instead, it sparked a red-hot controversy.
Offended Jewish visitors over the weekend likened the misting stations to the "showers" used to exterminate members of their faith at the camp during World War II, Israeli media reported.
That was never the intent, museum management said.
"Because of the extreme heat wave we have experienced in August in Poland, mist sprinklers which cool the air were placed near the entrance to the Museum," the Auschwitz Memorial Facebook page said. Temperatures soared to the low 100s over the weekend.
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"As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers," Meir Bulka told the Jerusalem Post.
"All the Israelis felt this was very distasteful," he said. "Someone called it a 'Holocaust gimmick.'"
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"It is really hard for us to comment on some suggested historical references since the mist sprinkles do not look like showers and the fake showers installed by Germans inside some of the gas chambers were not used to deliver gas into them," the Facebook page said.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:06 am to GetCocky11
it is kind of funny though
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:07 am to GetCocky11
I guess they'd rather bake in the heat then
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:09 am to Ingeniero
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I guess they'd rather bake in the heat then
Baking is probably a sore subject for them too
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:09 am to GetCocky11
Obviously the pussification of america was infectious and has spread to other countries.
I have to ask myself, why would Jews want to visit a former death camp or any concentration camp for that matter? Just being there is horrific enough for them, why would they purposefully bitch about a mist machine when they are already on a location where genocide took place?
I have to ask myself, why would Jews want to visit a former death camp or any concentration camp for that matter? Just being there is horrific enough for them, why would they purposefully bitch about a mist machine when they are already on a location where genocide took place?
This post was edited on 9/1/15 at 10:12 am
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:09 am to GetCocky11
People need to calm the frick down and stop finding things to get offended about.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:10 am to GetCocky11
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Officials put misting stations outside Auschwitz during heatwave - Ppl offended
Wow, I did Nazi that coming...
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:11 am to GetCocky11
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"As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers,"
Get over it.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:11 am to Schwartz
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People need to calm the frick down and stop finding things to get offended about.
people just completely overlook the obvious in the everything, it's quite pathetic
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:14 am to Schwartz
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People need to calm the frick down and stop finding things to get offended about.
I agree but this plan wasn't "visually" well thought out.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:15 am to GetCocky11
now that is frickin funny
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:16 am to Wtodd
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I agree but this plan wasn't "visually" well thought out.
Yeah they should have put them inside
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:17 am to SidewalkDawg
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Wow, I did Nazi that coming...
L U L frickING Z
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:20 am to Wtodd
people would be bitching about the heat if they didn't have the misters. lose lose situation
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:26 am to GetCocky11
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"It is really hard for us to comment on some suggested historical references since the mist sprinkles do not look like showers and the fake showers installed by Germans inside some of the gas chambers were not used to deliver gas into them," the Facebook page said.
We
So they are offended by a historical fallacy?
Posted on 9/1/15 at 10:39 am to GetCocky11
Before the first Jew was executed in that camp, 3 millions Poles were executed. The Polish people are sympathetic to the Jewish community however they do not care about these types of complaints. They may just take them down and say "whatever"
Posted on 9/1/15 at 1:38 pm to GetCocky11
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"As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers," Meir Bulka told the Jerusalem Post.
As an American who has lost so many relatives defeating the Nazi, the misters look like they would cut the heat a bit. STFU and continue with your tour.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 1:39 pm to PapaPogey
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it is kind of funny though
Posted on 9/1/15 at 1:53 pm to GetCocky11
I think they should go for the whole realistic experience, they can call the water "Zyklon W"
Posted on 9/1/15 at 2:14 pm to GetCocky11
What they should have done is just put them in without telling anyone, then turn them on without warning. I'm sure that they could have gotten some priceless reactions on video.
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