Anywhere else and the sprinklers would have been a good idea, cooling off overheated visitors with a fine spray of water at the entrance to one of Poland's busiest historical attractions. But not at Auschwitz.To the visiting Israeli tourists, the new showers outside the entrance to the site of the concentration camp brought images of Nazi gas chambers flooding back."As soon as I got off the bus I walked into the shower contraption," Meyer Bolka told Israel's Channel 2 television station."It was a punch to the gut. I walked up to the reception and asked the worker there about the showers; she said it was a hot day."I told her: 'With all due respect, it reminds me of the gas chambers'."Auschwitz, in occupied Poland, was one of the most deadly Nazi death camps, in which more than a million people died. Prisoners arrived by train before being separated into those fit for work and those who would be killed immediately.In many instances the victims were told that they were being sent for a shower and delousing. They were ordered to undress before walking into the gas chamber, which was modelled to look like a shower room. Some were given soap and a towel.The museum said the sprinklers were a safety measure at a time when temperatures had touched 38C. ..