If the incredible story of man destroying his fellow man depresses you, you *really* won't like this article. It's about the same tendency in women. Talk about Mean Girls:
/www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/06/hitler-s-killer-women-reveale\ d-in-new-history.html s3raphita sez: Re "Yeah, I am a big fan of places left to crumble. I saw Devil's Island . . . ": I know where you're coming from. That sounds like a fantastic but disturbing place to see. The closest I got to such an experience was when when I visited the Channel Islands. The islands were the only part of the UK that were occupied by the Nazis in WWII and they used slave labour to construct vast underground complexes. The sites are open for tourists to visit and I swear that you can sense the ghosts of the former inmates who died in the thousands from starvation and over-work. I still shudder whenever I remember my visit. That people could be so brutal to fellow humans is quite literally incomprehensible to me. It was a traumatic onslaught, and it is to this day a nightmarish memory. It reminds me of my visit to the Imperial War Museum in London. When you enter, at first you are quite upbeat: Wow, there's a German Tiger tank just like in the movies. And look there! There's a Spitfire fighter, and so-on. But eventually the sheer overload of witnessing the various ways man has invented to massacre his fellows really starts to wear you down. Oddly, the most disturbing exhibits were from a World War One display which had authentic home-made (trench-made) knuckle dusters and such-like primitive weapons. It was warfare reduced to a close-combat gang fight - primitive, brutal and elemental. I was seriously depressed when I left!
