Touring with Death and Danger: Exploring the World through Dark and Morbid Tourism
Kyle Durnan-Kerns Kyle Durnan-Kerns

Touring with Death and Danger: Exploring the World through Dark and Morbid Tourism

‘Where do they keep them now?’

It was common enough to get absurd, borderline offensive questions in my line of work as a tour guide in Berlin. But this question asked by a young South Korean woman to one of my colleagues would go down in Berlin tour guide history. Over a decade later, it still comes up when any of us former guides get together and reminisce about the complexities, joys, and difficulties of educating hoards of holidaying tourists about the horrors of Germany’s 20th century activities.

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