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Dachau Monologue

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Today, Shelley gave a brilliant lecture on Dachau. Earlier this year, my mother visited Dachau during a layover in Munich. I found it rather interesting to hear two different perspectives. One standpoint that was consistent between them was that feeling Shelley described, especially when in the crematorium. It is horrifying to fathom the amount of innocent people that were murdered in those rooms. I cannot even begin to conceive the grief, fear, pain that permanently stained those walls and floors so many years ago. I do not know how I would react in that room. Perhaps I would cry. Perhaps I would scream. Perhaps I would remain silent. No action would exemplify the anger and pain I would feel. Shelley touched on the group of school children
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