"Surely, apart from those that continue to unfathomably “Deny the Holocaust”, nobody can be unaware of the name Auschwitz and what occurred there.  I, of course, was well aware when I visited but I was not, however, prepared to realise the SCALE of the misery that unfolded there.  Upon entering on foot through that infamous railway arch, to stand and appreciate how huge in size and complexity was this place, was, a defining moment upon my outlook on WW11.   My attention was drawn to a horizon of what looked like telegraph poles.  I then realized that they were in fact brick chimneys and were all that remained of the huts in which the prisoners selected to work, were housed.  Each distant chimney represented home to innumerable inmates as they endured a living death.  Thought provoking that perhaps those that were killed within hours of arrival had been spared such misery".