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byronius

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8. Went there at the age of 10, utterly altered me.

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Thu Jan 18, 2018, 03:39 AM

Jan 2018

I'm grateful for the experience. I don't think my parents thought about how it might affect me, but I'm glad they took me.

I've had a Thing about Nazis ever since.

Sort of a ragey thing.

I carry Dachau with me at all times. Sort of a dark guide beam that continually calibrates my moral compass. It's why I speak up loudly whenever I hear anything anti-Semitic.

Well, all right. Yell. I yell. I try to stay calm.

But I found myself alone in the crematorium, and stuck my head in through the oven door, and now I am of the unalterable opinion that all things Nazi just need to go.

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