Chelsea - Auschwitz & anti-Semitic fans

[GodIsADeeJay81]

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Instead of banning fans who are racist / anti-Semitic the club are prepared to send them on educational trips to Auschwitz.

The belief is that banning someone won't change them/their minds so education is the better option.

I think it's a good idea.

[Foshiznik]

I think everyone should visit Auschwitz at least once in their life.

It's a life experience.

[Vintage Claret]

Visited Auschwitz/Birkenau about 4 years ago, it's definitely thought provoking and something that will stay with you.

Had a very eerie experience at Birkenau when I went inside one of the prisoners huts and happened to be the only one there.

It must have been 30+ degrees centigrade outside and not a breath of wind or cloud in the sky.

Just as I paused to take a closer look at one of the bunks I felt an ice cold draught hit me for a couple of seconds, never felt anything like that before or since but it scared the bejeezers out of me and I left that hut hell of a lot quicker than I went in!

[Dyched]

Always fancied going. Went to a museum in London (cant remember which one) and they had a scale model of one of the camps. Confiscated shoes and the stripped clothing were on show too. I felt physically sick just see them.

[DCWat]

The rooms full of shaven hair, confiscated false limbs, glasses, false teeth, suitcases and children’s toys really hit home in terms of the scale and the ruthlessness.

We were there in the summer months and it was bleak then, especially the huge area where the remaining accommodation (huts) of the inmates are.

[Hipper]

Always fancied going.

Get banned at Chelsea and you're on your way.

[1968claret]

Always fancied going. Went to a museum in London (cant remember which one) and they had a scale model of one of the camps. Confiscated shoes and the stripped clothing were on show too. I felt physically sick just see them.

It’s the Imperial War Museum in London. I visited just a few weeks ago. Very thought provoking particularly when you see the lead up to it. The manipulation of the media etc. To create a group to feared of and blamed for the problems that Germany was facing at the time.
Some echoes of the past happening now!

[ClaretTony]

I've visited Dachau in Munich but not Auschwitz. It's hardly something you would place on a bucket list but it is somewhere I want to visit.

[Dom]

We went to Sachsenhausen when we visited Berlin, it was a "testing ground" for extermination strategies. The stories you read as you went around the place were heartbreaking.

[Hipper]

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[TheFamilyCat]

Shame we can't send blue lab on an educational trip.

[South West Claret.]

I've visited Dachau in Munich but not Auschwitz. It's hardly something you would place on a bucket list but it is somewhere I want to visit.

I understand what your saying Tony but at the same time I think that depends on the type of person and their own sense of was is right and wrong, also those who like history and what it teaches us (or should), furthermore to perhaps give some of their offsprings a "back down to earth experience" in this increasingly materialistic world.