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The rise in dark tourism

Simon Parke

by Simon Parke

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 @ 12:27

BEFORE the Iron Curtain came down, my brother and I holidayed in East Germany. While we were there, we visited Buchenwald concentration camp. Little did we know that we were starting a trend. It is called "genocide tourism".

One of my abiding memories of the recent European football tournament was the visit of the English team to Auschwitz. The experience had a profound effect on Wayne Rooney. "It's hard to understand," he said. "I am a parent, and it's tough to see what happened ...

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