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It doesn’t give the same impression to see him in photos on books and to be there in real life: we think that there are a million and a half people who passed through this entrance and that all these people did not come out alive. Then in the camp it is even more terrible to see the places where the prisoners lived, when one sees the barracks, beds, toilets, crematory ovens, watchtowers: it shocks a lot. One understands what a hell it was, where nothing was allowed, where death lurked, under the gaze of armed guards (Christopher).