How do you remember something that you didn't experience?

[Cyrus]

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Der Spiegel (http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,350769,00.html)
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April 11, 2005
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Sixty years ago, United States Army troops liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, the former home to Goethe and Schiller and a place where German culture enjoyed its pinnacle and society hit its nadir.
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On Sunday, more than 500 survivors came together for what will likely be their last reunion at the memorial site. Now many are taking steps to ensure that their memories of what happened here will endure, even after their deaths.
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"Soon there won't be any living witnesses of the Nazi camps," said Jorge Semprun, author, former Spanish Minister of Culture and Buchenwald survivor, who once bore the prisoner number 44904.

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April 2005: The camp's entrance.

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Phil Elberg, 80, a Jewish Shoa-survivor from Belgium, takes part
in the commemorative ceremony.


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Pedro Mischtschuk, 78, from Ukraine, was held prisoner
at Buchenwald from 1944 to 1945.

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Polish survivors mourn fellow prisoners who were killed in Buchenwald.

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Survivors of the concentration camp from the Ukraine.

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April 1945: Former prisoners leaving the Buchenwald concentration camp.

[slickpoppa]

i don't get it. what are you trying to say?

[The once and future king]

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i don't get it. what are you trying to say?

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I think the relevant info is in this segment:

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Now many are taking steps to ensure that their memories of what happened here will endure, even after their deaths.
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"Soon there won't be any living witnesses of the Nazi camps," said Jorge Semprun, author, former Spanish Minister of Culture and Buchenwald survivor, who once bore the prisoner number 44904.



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[Broken Glass Can]

I thought this was going to be about supressed memories and their counterpart false memories. If you drill a false memory into your mind enough, you will truly believe it to be true.