Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Presentations
The presentations were well-done and informative. To see the personal items (glasses, clothing, shoes etc) taken from prisoners piled up in such vast numbers really sort of knocks the wind out of a person. I cannot begin to imagine how a person gets to the point where he thinks that sort of behavior towards, that sort of treatment of, that sort of philosophy about other human beings is remotely acceptable.
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It makes me wonder what America has done to its Japanese or German Americans. What are we doing to Afghani or Iraqi individuals? War makes people do very bad things.
Seeing these personal items does in fact make you sick by just knowing that they once belonged to people who at one time before the war were able to live their lives. Then once the Nazis rounded them up and sent them to their death camps, this became a horrible impossibility. I found this very upsetting.
I agree that the visual impact certainly had an impact on me. In the book that I read for the book review, when the author described the sounds made by the people as they met their deaths in the gas chambers, it was spine chilling -- just like something from a horror story.
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