No news from Auschwitz

Clara 2022-01-24 08:05:11

News will eventually become a thing of the past. No matter how appalling, how sinful, and how irritating, it will eventually pass. It will pass until people’s memories of this matter become vague, until the next generation of people don’t remember these things happened, and until a long time later, someone will say, "It seems that this happened." "But I can't remember. But this kind of thing did happen. It did have an indelible impact on the remaining lives of some people. In the second half of their lives, or even their entire lives, they may take the time of the event as the point of intersection and move in completely different directions. Most people have forgotten, but those who experienced these events in person, they still remember. Even if the events at the time were buried, misinterpreted and forgotten, they still remembered it. There is always a place deep in their hearts for those incidents, accompanied by a sense of guilt, the grief of losing a loved one, and the pain of experiencing the incident firsthand. Therefore, never hold any attitude towards unknowing events. A small denial, a small suspicion, incomprehension, and disrespect may all bring blows to the parties at the time. But, I also ask you. Never let forgetting control you, never be indifferent, never think that the world is so radiant because you can't see the darkness. You can be ignorant, but never deny it. Never say "There is no news in Auschwitz."

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  • John Fox: I remember looking at the Tower, of course, a lot. And from the Main Mall you can see there's a biblical line from the Bible. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." I've thought about it. One of the truths I learned... Is that there are monsters that walk among us. There are people out there that think unthinkable thoughts and then do unthinkable things.

  • Walter Cronkite: The horror of these, the sick among us, must be found in the horror of our hyper-civilization. A strange pandering to violence, a disrespect for life, fostered in part by governments which, in pursuit of the doctrine of self-defense, teach their youth to kill and to maim. A society in which the most popular newspaper cartoon strips, television programs, and movies are those that can invent new means of perpetrating bodily harm. A people who somehow can remain silent while their own civilization seems to crumble under the force of the caveman's philosophy - that might makes right. It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime was society's crime.

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