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My Auschwitz vacation


On Holocaust tourism

Perhaps he does not understand that the Martin Amis novel on which the film is slightly based is satire, or that he made Franz Liebkind’s Springtime for Hitler before Max Bialystock turned it into a musical comedy. A man says to me, “Nowhere in the world can you see such a big pile”—he holds his hands apart to demonstrate bigness—“of human hair.” His friend says, as if waiting for such a moment, “The hair is like a punch in the face.” The guide tells us not to take photographs. The title of Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe doesn’t mention the Nazis, so it is possible that idiots of the future might think German Jewry was abducted by space aliens.

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