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   Stephen Fry (stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 21:08:21 JST Stephen Fry

   Words fail me…

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     FiXato (fixato@toot.cat)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 21:08:20 JST FiXato

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     @Hilaryowens I've visited Auschwitz in the early 2000s; the amount of people I saw posing next to the furnaces, made my stomach turn...
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     Hil67? (hilaryowens@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 21:08:21 JST Hil67?

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     Totally repulsive. I hope selfies are not encouraged ?

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     Stephen Fry (stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 21:24:25 JST Stephen Fry

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     @FiXato Thanks for giving the image description: good Mastodon citizenship there. I should have done it, but couldn’t quite bring myself to…

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     FiXato (fixato@toot.cat)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 21:24:27 JST FiXato

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     #ImageDescription for post by @stephenfry:
     A tour bus operated by #KrakVille Tours which depicts several of their destinations / tours, and the captions "and much more..." and "simply the best":
     #Auschwitz & #Birkenau (accompanied by a photo of the dreadful "Arbeid Macht Frei" entrance sign), #Wieliczka Salt Mine (with a photo of the salt crystal chandeliers inside the mines, probably taken at the underground cathedral), #Schindler's Sites (accompanied by a black and white photo of Nazi soldiers), #Zakopane & #Tatra Mountains (with a photo of those mountains and the body of water in front of it), and their "KrakVille Tours" logo.

     Dreadful marketing aside, I've visited both Auschwitz (& Birkenau) and the Wieliczka Salt Mine, and both were impressive in their own ways. The former in a "please, never again" kind of impression, while the latter has some really beautiful salt sculptures and entire chapels hewn out of the rocks. (Sadly the nazis also abused the mine for weapons manufacturing and forced labour by their many prisoners..)