Was spelling "teehee" as "TIHI" intentional? "TIHI" usually stands for "Thanks, I Hate It"; which kinda works, but it'd be odd for the instagrammer to be saying that about themselves.
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It's just me mixing up languages. "Tihi" is Danish for "Teehee".
What's "teehee"?
A giggle.
I remember when visiting Dachau, the guide said photos were permitted but please no selfies. I had my SLR all ready, but after entering the gates it just didn't sit right. Didn't end up taking a single picture.
Reminds me of the time I accidentally made the Nazi salute in Theresienstadt. That was... terrible.
You see, there's a part separate from the ghetto called the small fortress which was used to house political prisoners. I went all the way to the wall used for executions and wanted to take a photo of the area from there, but the sun was shining into the camera, so I tried covering it with my hand, but it was visible in the shot. So I slowly extended it, focusing on keeping the shadow on the camera and trying to find the right angle so it would not be in the shot.
Then I suddenly realised what it must look like and was absolutely mortified. Luckily nobody was looking in my direction at the time...
How many other places in the world could she have taken this photo? All of them.
As a start, 6 million Jews were exterminated in camps like this, as well as many, many others, including some of my relatives.
I have my views, and they aren't shared by everyone. I am obligated at times to go to a church, and as an atheist, I keep my mouth shut and let people observe their sacred places.
This location is sacred, to many people for many reasons. Nothing about it suggests "Look at me aren't I cute?".
The events that happened there represent some of the worst that man can do to thier fellow man. The defeat of that ideology and liberation of these camps represent the best that man has to offer.
Men women and children died there on mass because of who they were. Men died on mass to free, protect, and avenge those people.
When you are walking on someone's grave, please show respect. When you are walking on a peoples grave, yes, take a photo, commemorate your experience, and have the humility and humanity to do it in a way that honors those who died.
En masse, but I can understand how you arrived at your spelling.
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I saw groups of highschool kids laughing and joking around at Dachau and lots of amateur insta models doing their little photoshoots. On a tour of Auschwitz, we got to the oven room and some older dudes immediately started snapping pictures of the ovens and were told to stop. Cameras on phones and constant access to social media have broken people's brains
TBF I saw the same sort of thing at Terezin twenty five years ago. There was a big group of Czech high schoolers there on a field trip, laughing and joking and being teenagers and paying no attention to the exhibits at all. A lot of brains were broken even before social media.
Why were they told to stop?
Because it's a pretty solemn place... the guide was explaining how men, women, kids were burned - some alive - in these ovens because the Nazis didn't want to waste bullets or spend extra time on corpse disposal, and these middle aged dudes bust out their phones while the guy is talking and start taking pictures of the inside of the ovens with flash.
Maybe you have to have been there. The atmosphere at Auschwitz is incredibly heavy given all the terrible things that happened there. Everyone seemed pretty appalled at these guys' behavior. I was just a teenager, but I was pretty shocked.
Damn. I thought the ovens were to burn corpses only. Shit. That changes everything. And yes, I would treat such place with utmost respect.
Was there earlier this year. Often those alive were barely so due to starvation and being overworked as slaves for the surrounding industrial complexes.
And to add to the horror, it was fellow prisoners who were forced to run said ovens.
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“‘Ey yo! I’m killin’ it in these jeans, just like they was doin’ it in the Auschwiggy!”
And here I sit watching Schindler's List. Trying to explain to my Filipino wife that some people don't believe it happened and those same people would do it again.
She's quite familiar with the Japanese horrors of WWII (mom was Japanese.) She's learning about Nazis now.
She's learning about Nazis now?
Where do you two live?
(Better late than never, I suppose. Kudos to your wife for showing interest.)
She's Filipino. In most parts of Asia, the holocaust is just another minor part of history. As far as horrific and evil events go, it's up there but hardly unique. There's a lot more focus on what the Japanese did during WW2, since that's the action that had a lot more impact on Asians.
I'm going to let one sliver of hope in humanity in and choose to believe that she's a descendant of Auswitz survivors and that this is her way of affirming that her family survived, thrived and looks good doing it, as a final fuck you to the Nazis. Like the smirk and the pose is her saying "this is how hard you failed fuckos".
That's what I'd like to believe. Or part of a group they were trying to eradicate. "You're gone, we're still here."
That's a nice headcanon
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While covering your face with a self satisfied smirk. Puke
Absolute idiocy.
She’s brain dead
Nice ass though, I like seeing it, by far, more than millions getting railed to their deaths
You're saying that you like seeing millions getting railed to their deaths. Fucking Nazi scum.
(I'm joking, in case it's not apparent.)
I've probably killed more Nazis in Wolfenstein 3D than there were actual Nazis fighting in WW2 so I think I know a little something about socking ole Adolf right on the kisser
You're welcome for my service, by the way
Is "Insta thots for liberty" a movement now?
Germans have no humour, Polish even less.
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