A Lecture on Dark Tourism at Holocaust Sites | Colorado Mesa University

[@sophieinnes7209]

I am currently at MSC Student, writing my final university project on this topic. This was a fascinating lecture, and I would be deeply interested in watching the rest of it and to hear what else Professor Rosenbaum has to say. Is the remainder of the lecture and the students responses to the professors questions posted anywhere?

[@Kid_Kootenay]

I watched many many survivor testimony long before I'd ever heard Poland objected to being implicated in the Holocaust so I had a hard time reconsiling the testimony I'd heard from people who probably never met telling of their experiences in Poland 1940s and what Poland so fervently asserts nowadays. Sadly they are not listed or indexed as such so I cannot list which survivors told of their experiences

[@allandavis6116]

Here is a photo you won't see in the video above, a picture of books, - i.imgur.com/LxOWVCz.jpg - but these aren't just any books, these are the Nazi Auschwitz 'death books' in which they recorded monthly summaries of the prisoners that died. You can read on wiki now that the Nazis destroyed the records - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp - 'The SS destroyed written records, and in the final week before the camp's liberation, burned or demolished many of its buildings.[239] ' - but that is obviously not true. The Russians captured the records, along with death certificates for the prisoners that died, and hid them. Following glasnost they revealed and released the records in 1990 - see auschwitz.org/en/museum/about-the-available-data/death-records/sterbebucher. After the Nuremberg trial a stone plaque was placed at the gate to Auschwitz stating that 4 million had been murdered there - i.imgur.com/8sh02jD.jpg. Following the release of the records it was taken down and the new plaque read that 1.5 million had been murdered there - i.imgur.com/byi2jbo.jpg. Now the USHMM claims that the total number of prisoners transferred to Auschwitz for the entire war was 1.3 million, see encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/auschwitz. BTW, the US hid the camp records it captured too, storing them at Bad Arolsen Germany. Recently they have been opened in Germany - www.dw.com/en/nazi-archive-in-bad-arolsen-opens-doors-to-public/a-2976227

[@Kid_Kootenay]

Living at Dachau does not bother me better that than have pro Nazi guys bust in while unattended. It's good people visit such places look at China they invented and forgot countless major inventions not rediscovered in the west for thousands of years. We know that now through archeology personally I would not want to have to repeat ww2 and all that came with it because it got lost in time. That dog is one of the smartest breeds kinda why they are used in so many tv and movies. This comes across as very cynical. Imo anyway