Auschwitz- our footballers remember....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/eu...Auschwitz-Oskar-Schindler-Factory-museum.html

 

Must have felt terrible going back all those years ago and reliving what the people that had been there had gone through.

 

I've been twice mate and it is truly awful.
The worst bit for me was going into the chamber in Auchwitz (1) and seeing the holes in the roof where the Zyklon B was dropped. You then go on to see lots of used cannisters of the stuff in the museum.. chilling.

 

Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
The why that I want you to die
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life

Forced in
Like cattle
You run
Stripped of
Your life's worth
Human mice, for the Angel of Death
Four hundred thousand more to die
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood

Destroying, without mercy
To benefit the Aryan race

Surgery, with no anesthesia
Feel the knife pierce you intensely
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous
Butcher,
Angel of Death

Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
Burning flesh, drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
Frigid cold, cracks your limbs
How long can you last
In this frozen water burial?
Sewn together, joining heads
Just a matter of time
'Til you rip yourselves apart
Millions laid out in their
Crowded tombs
Sickening ways to achieve
The holocaust
Seas of blood, bury life
Smell your death as it burns
Deep inside of you
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of
Your wide awake nightmare
Wings of pain, reach out for you
His face of death staring down,
Your blood running cold
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
The mutants he's creating
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free

Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
Infamous butcher,
Angel of Death

Angel of Death

 

A poem about Mengele... Who was the author Tash?

 

It's a song by Slayer called Angel of Death.

 

Interesting lyrics, quite poetic. Took a while to realise they were reflective and critical of what happened rather than praising.

 

Yeah, that's why metal heads who like this sort of music are often described by ignorant people as ****ed up, depressed people who would eat your children. When really all it is, is poetry about a terrible event that's sung in an angry way with aggressive instrumentals, and people enjoy the music, and a lot of metal heads actually look at the lyrics and take in the meaning.

Slayer wrote a song about UNIT 731 about a place where people where tested on with chemicals and other scientific abominations. Again, they're not praising it, but they're just telling a story and turning it into an aggressive song.

 

Who cares ? I sa a baby get ran over yesterday

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

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Pretty much the Japanese Auchwitz

I am the last of the dying insane
You would scream at the things I've done
Knowing that the dead still see
My blood it runs like mercury

Your last breath the sword comes down
She dies first speaking death to me
Philosophy, the vision, the view within
Duty, science, abstract cruelty

[Chorus:]
What are your final thoughts?
Do you want to kill me or die in shame?
From my point of view
Justified action, the enemy burns

The fun of massacre in the brain
Bioweapons and I are the same
Look at their face, hatred in their blood
Pile up the dead, my humanity

X-rays burn all that you can see
Nobody knows what a body can stand
Skulls on fire yet mercy is worse
You seek only your pleasure in death

[Chorus]

Bacterial target, eyes exploding
Melting flesh through your mind
Become your madness insanity wins
Infant's flesh on the walls
Testing limits threshold of pain
Ripping out teeth to observe
I want blood

[Lead: Hanneman]
[Lead: King]

[x4]
Knowing now the dead still see
My blood it runs like mercury

Human brain experiment
On prisoners open skull
Vivisection, live dissection
Repulsing to the core

[Chorus]

****in' burns

Pathogens seek horrible end
Churning factories of death
Crematoriums see your crime
You will see me in hell

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...e-Rooney-vows-it-will-never-be-forgotten.html

Mmmmm, did only seven of them go?

Crying shame if so.

 

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I believe the others may have gone to Schindler's Factory instead (that's actually in Krakow as opposed to 30 miles away).

 

Maybe some of them chose not to go because it was depress them too much.

I personally wouldn't want to go to a place where people were gassed and starved to death because it somehow is supposed to inspire you?

 

Its to make sure we all remember this happened and won't let it happen again. Thats the danger if we forget all about it.

 

This is exactly what Avram Grant said.

 

LOLs I knew I must have read that somewhere! To quote somebody else (Rooney possiibly?) it serves to put football into perspective.

Never thought I'd find myself quoting Wayne bloody Rooney thats for sure.

 

As always it should be each to their own. I don't like the idea on looking down on those who chose not to. Having been myself, its not for everybody.

 

Ive never been. My brother went and said one of the strange thing's was he never saw bird flying over Auschwitz.

 

I went last Easter, and to be honest, if the Auschwitz camp wasn't associated with such horrible things, it would actually look like quite a nice place. The buildings look like university halls (say what you want about what that implies). Birkenau, however, which is nearby, is much more 'concentration campey'- wooden huts in rows, with barbed wire everywhere and the famous entrance.

Grim places for sure though, especially looking at the children's suitcases, which had their names and ages written on. Really heartbreaking.