28 September 2020

28 September 2020

Great Journey 🏍🏍 Day 26

We think for a long time about going to Obersalzberg. Obersalzberg, Hitler's holiday home since 1923, became the second seat of government after Berlin after 1933. It was not only a centre for the exercise of power, it was also the scene of Hitler's cult.

And we are torn. Should we watch this? The documentary is very well realised, we learn about the concepts of the place of victims and the place of perpetrators. Although Obersalzberg is one of the perpetrator sites par excellence, there were actually no victims up here. "Perpetrator sites are ... understood to be the places of the "desk perpetrators", which may not necessarily be completely "victim-free" in real terms, but where the number of victims is disproportionate to the number of victims caused elsewhere from this place" (quote Obersalzberg.de).

While I had heard and learned a lot about the atrocities of the National Socialists in my school days, for Gerd it had always been "far away". However, after visiting the exhibition and the bunkers, we are both deeply depressed, sad, affected, stunned. Speechless. And in contrast to that, the sun is shining, the view is magnificent and all that doesn't want to fit together at all right now. (see last post)

#niewieder 1TP6Stunned 1TP6Sad #obersalzberg

 

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