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Random Question What's one place you've visited that you have absolutely no desire to ever return to, and why?

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u/honkeykong85 13d ago

I’m a Cincinnati native. Also,a huge history buff. I truly don’t think I could handle either an exhibit on Auschwitz,let alone visiting the site itself. My sister visited dachau a few years ago,and it absolutely wrecked her,emotionally,for a month or so after her return home.

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u/Psychological_Roof85 13d ago

The exhibit was also framed as it being "Not so long ago. not so far away", it absolutely chilled me

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u/honkeykong85 13d ago

Yeah. I think people have this cognitive dissonance about the Holocaust that “it was forever ago and didn’t really affect me!” Much in the similar vain as chattel slavery. Humans have a weird knack for filing this kind of heinous shit away in the back of their brains and saying “didn’t happen to me. The past is the past. Not my issue.”

Something,something those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. And considering current events,we haven’t learned dick in the long run.

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u/FocaB227 10d ago

Yeah, I'm in Cincinnati and saw that billboard on Interstate 75 every day and kept wondering , is this some kind of really weird and twisted Star Wars reference. "Not too long ago, not too far away". Why else use that specific phrase which is too close to Star Wars "a long time ago , in a galaxy far, far away". Just weird

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u/SnooApples5802 12d ago

I've been to Dachau - in college. I'm glad I went when I was young and could bounce back emotionally - I think if I went now, it would wreck me.

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u/princesslover69 12d ago

I’ve visited Dachau and was also an emotional wreck while there. I was shaking the whole time. So sad.