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The insanity mounts

I guess it's up to the person experiencing the site to make their own conclusions. There's definitely a strange feeling walking around these blocks. You could see those blocks as nameless tombstones, the increasing size symbolizing the mounting deathtoll over the course of the years.
Or it could be seen as a progression into a dehumanizing system, as the height of the stone increases, the floor in also going down, so when you walk from side into the site, it looks like the stones are going higher at a gentle pace. But as you walk toward the center, the tilted floor make you lose the line of sight very quickly, and you end up in a claustrophobic space much sooner than you thought. Maybe that represent the Nazi era where going in a steady direction ended up in an extreme state much sooner than people thought at the time.
It's also interesting, from this angle, you can't really tell but all the blocks have the same width and depth, and they're arranged forming rows and columns.
When you walk inside, you can always see the outside, and you can always be seen from the outside. Whether that's supposed to represent hope or a state where you're always observed is anyone guess.
Or it's just a bunch of blocks, I guess you could see it like this too.

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