tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162334149609216190.post2798506779662111213..comments2023-05-01T15:41:02.439+02:00Comments on ASF in Dachau: Meeting after meeting...Roy Scivyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485688727709344791noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3162334149609216190.post-86587470193570541882010-10-08T11:26:33.830+02:002010-10-08T11:26:33.830+02:00It's hard to fathom when you think about it li...It's hard to fathom when you think about it like that. <br /><br />As part of my MA I had to look into what's termed 'dark tourism' - concentration camps are probably the best examples of this but there are of course others, such as Ground Zero. <br /><br />People don't see their motives as 'dark' when they have a photo taken in front of the gates or the rubble, but you're right, it is fascinating because reservations about smiling or posing have probably never entered their head and you do wonder how they see their motives. Sites like Dachau aren’t just for people to say ‘I’ve been there’, but even when you study something like dark tourism, motivations are still murky and difficult to unravel.<br /><br />One of my projects involved looking into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum which is an amazing place in Washington. It was created as a living memorial – to make people think about the holocaust in terms of the present and the future as well as the past, encouraging them 'to act, cultivating a sense of moral responsibility among our citizens so that they will respond to the monumental challenges that confront our world.' <br /><br />It's so important that people are able to see these sites, and the holocaust itself, for themselves in these terms, as history is not just about what happened, but also about learning from it, to prevent these things happening again.The Maudsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12748639174304590275noreply@blogger.com