Auschwitz

Throughout the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. The German forces occupying Poland during the Second Warld War established a concentration camp, on the outskirts of the town of Oswiecim, in 1940: the German called the town Auschwitz and that is the name by which the camp was known. Over the next year it was expanded into three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz and more than forty subcamps. The first people to be brought to Auschwitz as prisoners and murdered here were Poles. They were followed by Soviet prisoners of war, Gypsies and deportees of many other nationalities. Beginning in 1942, however, Auschwitz became the setting for the most massive murder campaign in history, when the Nazis put into operation their plan to destory the entire Jewish population of Europe. The great majority of Jews who were deported to Auschwitz - men, women, and children- were sent immidiately upon arrival to death in the gas chambers of Birkenau.
When the SS realised that the end of the war was near, they attempted to remove the evidence of the atrocities committed here. They dismantled the gas chambers, crematoria, and other buildings, burned documents, and evacuated all those prisoners who could walk to the interior of Germany. Those who were not evacuated were liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.
On July 2, 1947, the Polish Parliament established the State Museum of Oswiecim - Brzezinka onthe sites of the former camps at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. In 1979 these camps were formally recognized by UNESCO by thier inclusion on its World Heritage List.
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Auschwitz is a one of a place that everybody should go to learn history of war and never will done for our future. Describing what I felt in there was totally sad even if there was the place treated for a tourist.
Poland, Germany, and Japan are the same countries which lost in the WWII. I have thought about it when I was a high school student or freshman. And I am really interested in the war, that is one of the reason why I started to learn Global Politics.

In Japan, there are two places that everyone should go to learn of the history in my opinion. The city are Hiroshima and Okinawa. Hiroshima is the place that atomic bomb was dropped into the city in the end of the WWII as a experiment of the effection(Nagasaki was also but I have never been there). I went to Hiroshima last year to visit those place. Fortunetaly, I had an oppertunity to talk with some persons who had experienced the War and they had injoured because of the bomb. Still they fight against to the government for the pourpose of payment of their cure. Support from the government is not enough to live not only of thier body but also for thier mind. What I heard was that people who had injoured of atomic bomb were getting decreasing because it was about 65 years ago. So, we need to teach what was happend at Hiroshima for next generations. Compared to Hiroshima, Okinawa is the only place which soldiers in Japan and US fought against on the ground. I have been there 4 years ago as a graduation trip of my high school life. I got inside some of a place which used for avoiding from the enemy. The place so called "gou" in Japanese, which was made under the ground about 10 meters deep from the ground and 300m or more widely. Inside of the gou was really dark and cold. I didn't remember the exact number of gou in Okinawa but that were still remaining for the people who want to go to visit there. Not just like Auschwitz or Hiroshima for the tourist but it was worth visiting.

In Iraq, Afganistan and some areas in Africa or South Asia, people are fighting with each other mainly for the purpose of political reason.

"No War" for WORLD PEACE!! , that is one of my job for my future.

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Yuji @ Pionki, Poland