Shower time at Auschwitz

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**Imposter101**

d-usa wrote:
From the "how did nobody see how this could possibly look bad" department:

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/outrage-after-auschwitz-installs-mist-showers-128113331497.html

The proprietors of the Auschwitz concentration camp have found themselves in hot water after installing showers in the former Nazi extermination camp in a bid to “cool down” visitors to the onetime slaughterhouse, which is now a museum commemorating the Holocaust.

Mist showers have reportedly been installed at the death camp’s entrance to help tourists battle the high summer temperatures in Poland, where Auschwitz is located.

However, for some Jewish visitors to the museum, the showers have evoked harsh memories of the execution of more than 1.1 million at the death camp, many of whom were murdered by being marched into showers filled with poison gas.

“Israel visitors to the museum could not ignore the connotation of showers being put in place at a site where more than a million Jews were murdered by the Nazis in gas chambers during the Holocaust,” Israel Hayom reported on Monday.

I thought re-enactments were usually done by people in uniforms and contemporary dress. They still got the Polish leading them to the showers so they got that bit right.

Did they have the band playing out front as well?

**Kap'n Krump**

It's mist showers to help people from getting too hot at an outdoor location in the middle of summer. They're very common devices that quickly and easily cool visitors without drenching them.

When I first saw this in the news I thought it blatantly ridiculous.

They could possibly have a similar effect from swamp cooling fans, but in my experience, misters are faster and more effective.

Moreover, while misters need just water, fans need both water and electricity, and electricity may or may not be available in sufficient quantities at that location.

Next summer they'll probably have a story about visitors having heatstroke and the lawyers will start shouting about 'why didn't they have something to cool down patrons'.

**Grey Templar**

And its not like they were using actual shower heads, or anything resembling what the Nazis used.