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These things didn't exist.
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[ Van Pelt ]
Auschwitz is very,
very different...
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from the place it was
during the war.
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Everything has changed
three or four times...
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since that camp operated
as an extermination camp.
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The barracks are 50 years old.
They're moldy, they smell bad.
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It's not a smell of the war.
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It's a smell of decay,
of 50 years of being exposed
to the elements.
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There's no way that
when you go to the crematoria...
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you really can understand
what it was to be led there
as a victim,
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to have to undress
and be led in the gas chamber.
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And when you are in
the building archive,
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it is possible to reimagine
what the place was like...
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during the war.
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The first time
I came into the archive,
I was stunned.
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I had found a mission.
I had found a task.
I had found a vocation.
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When you go to Birkenau
there's very little left,
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and to suddenly
have in that room...
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that concentration
of evidence--
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There is a tactile reality,
an incredible texture,