The Length Mankind Can Go..

Mankind is ridiculous. Today we went to Mauthausen, a concentration camp in sorta northern Austria. Every room you walked into you just had the thought 'I wonder how much pain and sadness happened in this room.' run through your head. You walked through the back gate that opens up to a courtyard where all the prisoners got sorted and had their clothes and personal posessions taken away. You go up some stairs and through the side door of the main entrance to the area where they had 'Role Call'. And we just slowly wandered through the camp listening to our audio guides. I am pretty sure that there wasn't a single person who didn't get effected. The worst was the execution chambers; including a gallows, gas chamber rooms, cremation chambers, a disection table and a giant fridge type room where they kept the dead bodies for burning. There was three stone walls and an electric wire fence where lots of people 'commited suicide' or were just executed. There was also a memorial park with statues dedicated to different countries and a quarry you could also go down to. First you had to walk down the 'Stairs of Death' and the 'Parachuting' place where people jumped or got pushed off.
Overall it was a pretty gloomy day.
But you could also look at it like this, I am so blessed that I never had to live in a time like that.