Has anybody ever crapped/pissed their pants visiting Auschwitz/Berkenau?

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bramblette

I don't know why you associate this experience with such physiological things. The experience you get at Auschwitz/Birkenau is pretty unique. You don't get it watching films or videos about it. Don't think about how you may think if you ever go there. Just go and see for yourself.
The most shocking reaction I have ever heard about was when a man fainted right after entering the camp. It happened right after the camp was opened in late 1940s and the man had lost his relatives there. He was related to my teacher who told us about it where we were supposed to go there.
But I also remember our guide telling us that once he met a former prisoner of the camp. The man was a visitor to the museum and he just told others what his life there was.
As for what I remember from my visit to the camp, I remember feeling sad. You walk the paths of the camp and you realise that it's where those people fought to survive everyday, that they died there everday, not only in the gas chambers, but also tormented and starved to death in their cells in Auschwitz or barracks of Birkenau or simply dying from exhaustion. You see their belongings and their photos. You see candles lit under the execution wall and roses put in the barbed wire. And what strikes you is this huge gap between their humanity and the inhuman way they were treated.
Their belongings and roses left by visitors opposed by barbed wire and concrete unfriendly walls of the camp and the crematory.
Another thing that shocked me was a film shown to us. It was made when the camp was liberated. The scene that I remember is a group of children who asked about their names fold up their sleeves and show the camp number.
This place was a factory of death. The Nazis treated men as things and that's what scares you, but the fear is emotional rather than physical. When you have a chance to visit the museum, do it.

Keyser

very emotional place,but you wanna know what makes it even more horrifying?

there are still men and women all over 'europe' and other white nations who want a repeat of this horror and want to do it all over again.

JRay

I was younger when I visited there (16 I think). And while I did not crap or piss my pants as you say, it was VERY emotional. I don't think anyone can go there and not be horrified by the place.

Kat

No and I have never seen anybody doing that. I was there 3 times.
It's rather a psychological & emotional experience than strictly physical!!

dart

I went to Dachau when I was twenty.

Crap my pants? no.

Emotional? Absolutely!

Did it change me? Yes.

But, yeah, I think I get what you mean. It is VERY disturbing to believe that humans can do such things...And they still do it. Every day. What happened in India this week? What goes on in Darfur, every day?

It's terrible!

Pockyman

I was so young when I visited this place I think 15-16 ,it's been so many years but I still remember all the stuff ,like people luggages,baby toys ,big picture of lady on the wall who survive this camp,people hair ,it was so sad ,I cry because I was tried thinking what the people been through.It was so sad .I even read the book -the author spend 5 years in the concetrations camps -like -Dahau-Matthaussen and Guessen in Germany and he wrote everthing what he was trough over there ,it was pretty emottional.The author is polish -Stanislaw Grzesiuk - "5 lat Kacetu" -'5 years of Kacet''

Liz

When I went there I started crying and i got the chills/goosebumps. It is a very scary place. I don't think I ever want to go back there again.

t-pain

Um, I visited Majdanek, another concentration camp but I really didn't feel very effected, I just loved the historical aspect of the camp, I found the barracks and gas chambers to be much more "overwhelming."

Pioro

I took an American friend there with my girlfriend and all we usually do is crack jokes and bs about everything...but after the visit, the ride home was soooooo quiet.

Someone mentioned Dachau earlier and maybe this is a bit off-topic but I've visited both and I really don't like what the Germans have done with Dachau. They have made it too clean, too pretty almost. There are potted flowers everywhere. Almost like a disneyfication of the horror. Auschwitz is still very grim, very dark, very morbid...as it should be.

Allan D is GAME OVER

I agree with my friends LeFeeFan and Keyser

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