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Date: 26 January 2009 19:13:25
There is a debate going on at the moment as to whether or not Auschwitz should be saved for the future or left to rot and return to nature.
The thing about this debate is that this is the only surviving extermination camp, though concentration camps such as Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen and Dachau remain either complete or partially. Though many died in these camps they were not on the industrial scale of Auschwitz and the other Polish death camps.
For me they should be repaired for 2 reasons:
1. It serves as a memorial to all
2. It helps to defy the holocaust deniers that exist
On the second point we need to keep physical evidence of the crime that was committed to help combat these people. Allow Auschwitz to disappear and you help give them ammunition for their denial. Pictures and films may remain but that does not equate to the power of such physical evidence.
So it costs! Isn't something like this worth preserving for future generations?