I think that there’s nothing wrong with visiting that cemetery, where those young men are victims of Nazism also, even though they were fighting in the German uniform, drafted into service to carry out the hateful wishes of the Nazis. They were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps. (at Bitburg […]
Concentration Camps Quotes
The real question is: ‘Given what people are, why doesn’t it happen more often?’ Of course, it does, in subtler forms. (speaking of Auschwitz)
Such events do not occur only when the external conditions are favorable, however: people who have survived concentration camps or who have lived through near-fatal physical dangers often recall that in the midst of their ordeal they experienced extraordinarily rich epiphanies in response to such simple events as hearing the song of a bird in […]
