The day before yesterday, I watched Germany's Olympic bid film "The Labyrinth of Silence". It tells the story of the German State Prosecutor's Office's difficult prosecution of officers serving in the Auschwitz concentration camp after World War II. Everything is prospering, people are eager to get rid of the painful memories of the war and start a new life, so are the SS officers. They have returned to their lives before the war began, some re-worked as bakers, some resumed business operations, some opened clinics, and even some stormtroopers The executioner is still teaching at the school as if nothing had happened. At that time, Auschwitz was almost unknown in Germany, and people thought it was just an ordinary garrison camp.
An Auschwitz survivor passed by the campus and was surprised to find that the officer serving in Auschwitz was well-dressed and educating his children. He went to the procuratorate to demand severe punishment of the SS executioner, but was ridiculed by all the prosecutors, especially the experienced and old prosecutors. They claimed that the elite knew the needs of Germany at the moment, and no one wanted to intervene in such a thankless task. , and every German family is more or less involved in the war, which is equivalent to opening the scars of the whole Germany, no one will want to. But this does not include Hardman, a rookie prosecutor who just graduated. He believes in the truth of his father's motto. He initiated legal proceedings and suspended the teacher. He thought it was an explanation for the reporters, but he, like most Germans, knew nothing about Auschwitz, believed that the sanctions against the Nazis were just the punishment for Germany's defeat, and that the atrocities of the German army during the war were just the Allies propaganda, a casus belli. So in fact the teacher will not be suspended, and the Germans will not have trouble with their compatriots in this matter. The reporter poured a bucket of cold water on the young prosecutor and forced him to delve into everything that happened in the concentration camp. He went to the American archives to check the German archives. Everything was recorded by the "rigorous" German officers. The prosecutor was shocked, He seemed to have stepped into the labyrinth of human nature. How could a pastry chef with a kind teacher usually kill a dog in a concentration camp, or how could a doctor in higher education do live experiments on children. There is nothing special about these people at all, and they are even role models in society, but their years in concentration camps are distorted like devils. Does putting on the cloak of war mean that the state can do whatever it wants, and that completely spontaneous murders can gain legitimacy just by putting on a military uniform?
No, Hardman is going to put them all on trial. At the same time, it is necessary to expose Auschwitz to the whole of Germany. Hitler cannot be blamed for the crimes of the war. The crimes committed by ordinary people may expose the dark side of the war. The German prosecutor's office is more meaningful than an international trial.
Yet all the defendants came to trial without remorse, which can be attributed to the collective unconscious.
I'm baffled why the Americans have so much dossier and do nothing, maybe they don't want to need West Germany's support to fight the Soviet Union without making a mess. Think about it, there is no one except Germany who can dig the scars of the country so deeply. Look at the good friend Japan, and look at the most strict control of the Great Celestial Dynasty. The collective unconsciousness, silence, and aphasia are terrifying to think about, and only the truth can defeat conspiracy theories.
Veritas.
ps: It's really hard for people who don't have the skill to not spoil it.
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