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Place of Execution

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We all heard about the Nazi gas chambers, but while I was visiting Auschwitz our tour group came to a wall with flowers all around the base of it. We asked what it was and we were told that some prisoners were killed by firing squad. I guess the Nazi guards wanted to make an example of them.

That was terrible enough to imagine, but the flowers really brought tears to your eyes. I assume that they were left by friends or relatives of the prisoners who died at that location.

I took this photo in the early '90s and as you can see I used some 21st century editing magic to enhance it a bit.
I wanted the flowers to contrast more from the background.
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I've been there several times, only I cannot lay flowers for those lost because of the soldiers. I lay flowers to ask people for forgivness for my family. My great uncle always tells me his trips to Auschwitz and how great Hitler had been. I wish he'd stop. This is a beautiful shot. You did a wonderful job.