Photos from Majdanek (Lublin).

I'm going to just start this run of photos with the quick interjection that I take photos of absolutely everything. I feel like when I see a site of atrocities, I should capture it, so that it can be remembered. I don't think of anything as "unspeakable" per se - I think that the more we speak about things, the more we should be able to learn from what has happened. This is probably the reason why I study German history - there's a lot to learn from. There's a lot to stomach, and there's a lot of reasons that I can't understand. It's not that I don't understand the theory behind them, it's that I don't understand why the people who justified them could have possibly thought in the way that they did. That's probably what makes this branch of history hold my attention for so much longer than other areas - no matter how much I study it, I'll probably never come to terms with it all, so it will continue to hold my interest. That being said, following this is a lengthy post about a space where a lot of people died, so feel free to skip over all of it if you so choose.

Gas Chamber.

Shower Room.

This is the exhibit of shoes.

Wildflowers & Guard Towers.

An example of bunks.

Looking through the keyhole into empty barracks.

Other Barracks.

This is the fence that surrounds the Prisoners' Compound.

Fence, Guard Towers and Barracks.

Corner of the hideous "modern" monument, and haymaking in the fields on the property.