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I wasn't in a very humorous mood that night. I was staying in a small room that once had housed SS officers. It was difficult to sleep on the hard bed, and the idea of spending the night in a former death camp wasn't my only distraction.

"Nein, nein, nein!" someone yelled down the corridor, and I heard laughter and a girl squealing. This had been going on for nearly a half-hour. I finally jumped out of bed and threw open the door. The hallway was full of about a dozen German teens visiting Auschwitz on a school outing. Like me, they were spending the night at the camp.

"Hey!" I said, not knowing the German equivalent. "You want to keep it down?" A boy stepped forward, a good-looking kid with light-brown hair and blue eyes. "I'm sorry," he said in English. "We're having a party."

There was an awkward pause as we faced one another. He looked me over -- foreigner, American, Jew. His chin rose ever so slightly.

"Well," I said at last, "think about where we are, OK?"

"OK," the boy replied. "Sorry."

The German students were gone in the morning.

http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2000/09/18/auschwitz/index.html?pn=2

WARSAW, Poland -- An investor has obtained permission to operate a discotheque in a former tannery where Auschwitz inmates worked and died, an official said yesterday, and a TV report said it was already open for business.

"We have such a law that once an investor fulfills formal requirements, he will get permission," said Adam Bilski, the administrator for Oswiecim, the Polish name for the city of Auschwitz.

"One can consider whether it is moral or not, but that's another matter."

The discotheque, in the southern city of Oswiecim where the Nazi camp was located during the German occupation in World War II, has been in operation for a week, according to a public Channel One TV news report.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/disc18.shtml

A Canadian station is under fire after the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said comments made on Loveline, which airs on Corus Talker CHMJ/Toronto, breached industry codes by "mocking tragic historical events."

According to Reuters, Loveline hosts Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky advised a phone sex operator who called to use terms like "Holocaust" and "Vietnam" to extend conversations with customers.

Going along with the premise, the caller said, "Well, I’m wearing a nice black garter. Mmm, just thinking about the Holocaust right now." Carolla responded by saying, "Burn those Jews. Gas ‘em in the shower, baby. Send them on the train to Krakow." The CBSC received a written complaint about the broadcast which noted the "great laughter heard throughout" the Holocaust references.

"The panel does not find that any of the comments quoted above were advocating violence toward the Jewish population," the Council ruling said. "On the other hand, it decided that the 'humorous constructs erected here on the base of great tragedy,' namely, the Holocaust in this instance, constituted improper comments." CHMJ has been required to air that the station has breached industry codes on human rights.

"The segment had nothing to do with the Holocaust, other than its representation as a word conjuring up horrible images," commented CHMJ PD Tom Plasteras.

http://www.fmqb.com/site/BreakingNews/2003/Printer/0828.html