“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
How could this happen, the genocide of six million, the mass murder of countless millions? How do functionaries of the nation reach the point where they willingly participate in systematically destroying other human beings? Heredity had nothing to do with it. No intrinsically evil people exist. There is no ‘evil’ gene. Germans are no more uniquely evil than Americans are uniquely good. Upbringing and environment can be contributing factors. Let […]
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I Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, “wanted a Reich under the law (230)” as long as the law could be used to justify anything. One pointed the law toward a desired end and drafted laws that fulfilled that end. Like Himmler , Frank wished for the elimination of “all feelings of pity (217).”@ At 18, he was already anti-Semitic and right-wing. Fanaticism works on the young. Its certitude appeals to their […]
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Phillippe Sands, a noted International human rights lawyer, has written three books that each in its own way explore the lives of Nazi middle managers deeply involved in mass murder and genocide. The third book dealt with one of those Nazis who escaped to Chile and became involved with Augusto Pinochet’s death squads and torture centers that Pinochet set up after his coup overthrowing Allende in late 1973. None of […]
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I always come back to the Game I played at no level of expertise, but that doesn’t matter. The body remembers, even now, years after I’ve touched a ball. Muscle memory extends itself into emotional memory and when those memories are entangled with countless hours on courts with others but often alone with one’s imagination, a ball, a hoop, the dying light of winter afternoons, the infinite beauty of the […]
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