Serial Numbers - Death markers

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: SaigonK

Originally posted by: z0mb13
why do they use serial numbers?

Each death camp prisoner recieved a serial number as their means of identificaiton...

oh I see

u dont think it would be more humane if the actual names are used? (that is for known ones)

Do you think they kept documentation of the names? The whole reason for assigning numbers was to de-humanitize everything and make them nothing but faceless numbers. We probably don't know the names of a small fraction of the people killed. Using the serial numbers is more symbolic anyway, not sugar-coated. It also has architectural considerations too... even proportions and less surface area.

Most of this stuff, especially the assigning of numbers, was taught in Middle School. Or so I thought...

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: SaigonK

Originally posted by: z0mb13
why do they use serial numbers?

Each death camp prisoner recieved a serial number as their means of identificaiton...

oh I see

u dont think it would be more humane if the actual names are used? (that is for known ones)

Do you think they kept documentation of the names? The whole reason for assigning numbers was to de-humanitize everything and make them nothing but faceless numbers. We probably don't know the names of a small fraction of the people killed. Using the serial numbers is more symbolic anyway, not sugar-coated. It also has architectural considerations too... even proportions and less surface area.

Most of this stuff, especially the assigning of numbers, was taught in Middle School. Or so I thought...

I didnt go to a us middle school

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: SaigonK

Originally posted by: z0mb13
why do they use serial numbers?

Each death camp prisoner recieved a serial number as their means of identificaiton...

oh I see

u dont think it would be more humane if the actual names are used? (that is for known ones)

Do you think they kept documentation of the names? The whole reason for assigning numbers was to de-humanitize everything and make them nothing but faceless numbers. We probably don't know the names of a small fraction of the people killed. Using the serial numbers is more symbolic anyway, not sugar-coated. It also has architectural considerations too... even proportions and less surface area.

Most of this stuff, especially the assigning of numbers, was taught in Middle School. Or so I thought...

I didnt go to a us middle school

Gotchya.

 

[SpazzyChicken]

I visited the Dachau Memorial when I was studying abroad in Europe. Very, very heart-breaking and disturbing. Some of the stories that are posted you just can't believe are true (or just don't want to believe that one person could do these acts upon another), until you look down at the pictures that show that they were in fact true.

I took quite a few pictures (50+ at least), and I'll post them if there is interest.

 

[BeauJangles]

I love our (Boston's) holocaust memorial. It is very touching and beautiful, particularly at night.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: SpazzyChicken
I visited the Dachau Memorial when I was studying abroad in Europe. Very, very heart-breaking and disturbing. Some of the stories that are posted you just can't believe are true (or just don't want to believe that one person could do these acts upon another), until you look down at the pictures that show that they were in fact true.

I took quite a few pictures (50+ at least), and I'll post them if there is interest.

Same here. I went this past spring.

Picture of where the prisoners were kept.

Self-explanatory.

 

[SaigonK]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: SpazzyChicken
I visited the Dachau Memorial when I was studying abroad in Europe. Very, very heart-breaking and disturbing. Some of the stories that are posted you just can't believe are true (or just don't want to believe that one person could do these acts upon another), until you look down at the pictures that show that they were in fact true.

I took quite a few pictures (50+ at least), and I'll post them if there is interest.

Same here. I went this past spring.

Picture of where the prisoners were kept.

Self-explanatory.

Damn! Thats just wrong!

 

[SaigonK]

^y^