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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

Sometimes, it’s best not to take the photo – as this girl posing at a former Nazi death camp reminds us

Person holds hand up to camera blocking face.

Sometimes it’s blatantly obvious when not to take a picture; other times, the line is blurred. But unfortunately, this girl got it horribly wrong and has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.

Her little photo shoot in front of the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau – the former Nazi death camp where, during World War II, some 1.2 million people are thought to have been murdered – has caused quite a stir, while reminding us of knowing when to put the camera away.

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