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It’s a hot summer’s day. The memorial to the former Dachau concentration camp, located near Munich, is pictured on the screen. The Nazis built the camp in 1933 and prisoners from all over Europe were murdered there over the years during the Nazi regime.

The Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has filmed people wearing shorts, t-shirts, short skirts, sandals – dressed as if they were about to board a cruise ship. Nearly all of them are holding up their phones to take pictures. Only a few have brought actual cameras along.

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