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https://scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2066472/yolocaust-tourists-are-shamed-online-over-selfies-berlins
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‘Yolocaust’ tourists are shamed online over selfies at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial

Visitors take photos while standing on the blocks of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin last Thursday. Photo: EPA

Built as a solemn place of reflection, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is an undulating sea of stone blocks lined up like so many coffins on a sprawling patch of central Berlin. But in the look-at-me-age of Instagram and Facebook, it has also become something else.

The perfect backdrop for a selfie.