HOW TO THINK THE HUMAN BEING AFTER AUSCHWITZ.
The facts are more radical thinking as a human being after Auschwitz?.
E 'inhuman sure that is part of humanity.
There was a project conceived and designed the new humanity. Order there must be only "race" Aryan breeds were placed in the second and third category, the rest slaves. helots or simply exterminated.
In the statements of its creator, Himmler, October 4, 1943. "This is a page of our history we have written and that no one will be written up. National Socialism of Hitler had a clear conscience and determination of total inversion of values \u200b\u200bof life. What was a crime for them became glory. And here we reveal the traces of the Apocalypse and the Anti-Christ.
Books that troubled me, (who has not already done invitation to read) so that they can never forget they are called "If This Is a Man" by Primo Levi (1948), "La Notte " Elie Wiesel and " Command in Auschwitz by Rudolf Hoss autobiographical note "(1958).
(Elie Wiesel, Night )
" Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has made my life a long night seven times and bolted .
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the little faces of children whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that burned my faith forever.
Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which I took off for ever the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and my dreams, who took the face of the desert.
Never shall I forget everything, even if I were condemned to live as God Himself. Never. ".....
" Behind me I heard the usual man asked:
- Where is God?
And I heard a voice within me answer him:
- Where is it? Here he is hanging there, on this gallows ... ...
(Primo Levi. If this is a man)
"Consider if this is a man Who works in
mud Who knows no peace Who
fight for a crust of bread Who dies
for a yes or a no. "
During the 10 months was arrested and questioned by Polish authorities in Krakow between 1946 and 1947 and later executed, Hoss had time to write with precision of detail, such as sending two million Jews in gas chambers. How did run a factory ovens to burn miles dispose of corpses every day for up to two years that frightened the Nazi guards.
was the "banality of death" as Hannah Arendt spoke.
But what is more frightening is the wickedness of man. We can not imagine that organizing such a extermination was only linked to the sadism and brutality of evil men. Hoss, by contrast, was friendly with his wife and his son, conscientious, a friend of nature, then a petty bourgeois.
the end before his death he wrote: "the public will think they are was a bloodthirsty beast, a sadistic pervert and a murderess of millions of human beings and humanity never may understand that this captain had a heart and it was not bad. The more evil is irresponsible and the more the man is evil and filled from evil.
Here's what upsets me : how can humanity live with so much inhumanity?
do not know.
I suspect that part of the ideology and the total submission to the head. Hoss The person identified himself as commander and the commander as a person. The person in body and soul was a Nazi and radical son of the supreme leader. He received orders from the "Fuhrer" to exterminate the Jews, do not think you just exterminated (der Fuhrer befiehl, Folgen wir). He confessed that he would never contradicted orders because the leader is always right. Any doubt was intended as a betrayal to Hitler.
But evil also had its limits and Hoos and executioners if they felt on their skin. In a man is always something humanity?. He himself tells of two children who were playing, they saw their mother who had started at the gas chamber. The children were forced to go together. the cry of the mother who asked for mercy for the "two children," said Hoss, I never ever sold and with a gesture, he ordered the guards to also enclose them in the room knows Gas. He remained always cold and cruel. But he confessed that many of the jailers could not endure such inhumanity and committed suicide.
When we are in front of a fundamentalist of blind obedience, is expressed for a totalitarian system, whether political or religious or ideological. The consequence is that makes the death of another of your fellow ..
This risk now surrounds us because we have the means to self-destruction, we have the means to unbalance the Earth system and settled forever part of our lives. Only by strengthening solidarity with the human being, with grace, with love of neighbor can limit our inhumanity.
In January 1945 the Russians, they opened the gates of Nazi concentration camp in the Polish town of Oswiecim, known with the German name of Auschwitz and were released the few survivors.
AUSCHWITZ began as a concentration camp for political opponents of the regime, but in 1941 became the extermination camp of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and prisoners of war in Russia, through the gas chamber that used the terrible "Zyklon B gas, which asphyxiated in a few minutes and then the bodies were burned on the same day to leave no traces.
A team led by another doctor J. Mengele used the prisoners were murdered as a result, to inhuman experiments in the laboratory.
Elie Wiesel, the famous writer and thinker jew, recounted his experience of survival in book "The Night", as did our Levi with "If This Is a Man." The
Wiesel spent a month between life and death. Undernourished, thin, almost dead was rescued and taken to hospital and they spent a month between life and death. When for the first time he got up and looked in the mirror, who was watching a corpse unrecognizable. Seeing he was terrified of his own ghost, later claimed that he had never felt more like a feeling of fear.
After a speech to the German parliament, the president of Israel, Simon Perez ( that he lost his entire family in the Holocaust ), said the conviction of those responsible and compromises in the extermination of the Jews. He added: "little by little all the survivors Holocaust are dying but at the same time men and women in the Holocaust are still compromised, the rich, to live in Germany, Europe and worldwide. "
What still scares when it comes to Holocaust is the determination, strategy, programming slow and progressive work of extermination "men".
Sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Russian army , January 27, 1945, is designated as the "Day of Remembrance" for those who want to forget , deny, or minimize, the brutal genocide committed by the Nazi regimes. Therefore it is important to renew the memory, do not forget to report.
The human being is the most beautiful thing on our earth, is the most beautiful and beloved creature of God 'capable of composing symphonies and poems. E 'capable of grand gestures of solidarity in favor of the most heroic. Many of these acts were perpetrated during the Holocaust throughout Europe but were not sufficient to stop the Nazi-Fascist barbarism.
This same human being is capable of surprising horrors and horrendous murders. Not comparable to any living being. As in the animal world the law of the jungle prevails only for hunger. But human beings are capable of torture, killings and deaths slow, sadistic, genocidal planned in detail how the Nazi Holocaust. The horror of that man is capable , must be remembered and brought to the attention of new generations that know that the ability and opportunity to practice the evil is inherent in all human beings .
The knowledge of these horrors, is the price of freedom.
Why free the human being sometimes choose evil.
Remember not to repeat. Remember to purify the mind to reconcile the memory and our hearts. Maybe just to commemorate the millions of deaths, but it is useful to remember.
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