Thanatourism, otherwise known as Grief tourism or Dark tourism, is the act of visiting an often popular place that has either recently or distantly been stricken with a disaster. Dark tourism or Grief tourism is tourism involving travel to sites associated with death and suffering. This form of traveling involves going to places which have been hit by natural disasters or even attacks by terrorists and other activists.
One of the most fascinating types of grief tourism is thanatourism. One of the most popular thanatourism spots is the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps located in Poland, called Auschwitz. Auschwitz is the most notorious of the death camps set up by Adolf Hitler to carry out his “final solution,” the murder of Europe’s Jewish population. Auschwitz is a powerful and universal image of the Holocaust. Auschwitz is actually situated in Poland, and it was located in the small town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz is represented as the Kingdom of Evil where all the moral traditions and restrictions of Christian civilisation have been overthrown.
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