How evil can a human mind actually be?
The scary thing is not in the fact that people were killed, but the fact that actual human beings could sit down and think through what would be the most systematic way to exterminate people.
If they have to think of ways to kill someone without living with the guilt of it, should it not have been an alarm of their conscience? To what extent will man go to keep their own lives. To save it and cause others to lose it.
At the end of the walking tour, walking into the last standing original building, the Pathology lab, just broke me. It was the culmination of all the anger and emotion I felt throughout the entire walk. Looking at the empty autopsy room, the ironically while tiled tables, walls basins and cabinets, I finally broke down in tears. Tears was merely a shallow outlet for the turmoil that was inside me. What is humanity? How can God still love us when we are capable of such? “Love your enemy” has to be the hardest commandment to ever obey. I can’t begin to describe how impossible that will be for me if I were one of the victims. Not when I find that rather impossible now.
How does one explain this event in history, a history not too distant away? Can we even give enough thought to it? Walking through the memorial I felt this sense of skepticism(as I always do). The people who walk through this memorial, do they truly understand the lessons of the past? Do they learn anything? Some people on the tour were laughing and talking about ‘you were so wasted last night’. When will we throw off such self-centeredness and occupation with ourselves to truly think about where we are now as humans. WIll thinking about the horrific past suffice? Will it enable us to change, and live as better people?
I don’t think anything can explain. I don’t even feel that my emotions from this experience has justified it’s horrific place in history. I walk out of that concentration camp with such feelings but how has it changed me?
You think nations will learn from their ignorance in this issue that led to so many deaths. Yet we see it happening. Rwanda, Bosnia Herzegovina, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh Cambodia? Standing aside because it is a ‘localised issue’ or perhaps more importantly, that our own interests are not at stake? When will it be justified to intervene then?
It sounds horrible, Delly =( That's still an understatement. I half wish I'd gotten a chance to see Sachsenhausen, but I don't think I could take it.
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