NN, German acronym for Night and Fog, referring to an unidentified person. Labels the Nazis put on concentration camp victims.
The half-hour documentary begins with a barren concentration camp, green grass, broken power grids, walking, tracks, and various ways to get here. The camera cuts back to the scene in the past. People are lining up, neatly dressed without losing their manners, carrying their luggage and children, and under the command of the SS, they get on a train that is bound for nowhere. The doors were closed, hundreds of people packed into a windowless carriage, and the train headed out into the field. Drive to an unknown destination.
The hair that covered the entire warehouse was just a woman's hair. The camera pulls up, one second, two seconds, three seconds, and it's not even close. My scalp went numb. Immediately after a turn, unburned bones were spread on the field. A deformed torso with clearly visible ribs. Pile of corpses piled together. The bulldozer slowly started to push into the dug hole. The eyes that could not be closed were buried forever in the sand.
From a neatly dressed man, to a deformed body, a pile of hair, a bar of soap, and countless bones. What happened in the middle, if you don't think about it, it's already creepy.
Even after preparations were made, the picture continued to advance, and my heart was still blocked.
despair.
Maybe this word really can describe it. Hospital doctors, and nurses cutting patients. The nurse said something in front of the camera, and she felt a chill in her heart when she thought that she had injected the death potion into an unknown number of people.
True, this is too unacceptable.
All of this happened in real life, and humans are so methodically murdering their own kind. At that moment, I felt that there was no point in praying to anyone. Confession, reflection, mourning, all pale in the face of such despair.
What is even more powerless is that this kind of thing is not the first time, nor is it the last time, even now, there are still similar cruelties happening.
"If morality is relative, then eating people is just a matter of taste."
Originally I thought this sentence was very interesting, but after watching the film, I thought of this sentence and felt frivolous.
But in the face of such a scene, I can't help but think of this sentence, especially at the end, in the trial court, the prisoner, the officer, and the righteous words, I have no responsibility.
Xiao Ran wrote, "Where there is an idea that prevails, the head will fall."
In Europe in the last century, in the concentration camps of purgatory, it was the executioner who killed people, and the driving force behind it was the idea that was regarded as a model by a group of people. . It is this kind of thought that makes them sincerely believe that they are doing things for the benefit of future generations. From what their hearts believed, they were indeed innocent. But if no one did it wrong, why would anyone have to pay a heavy price for it.
In the past, when I read books, the most frequent descriptions of the adult world were lies and sins. Through experience, I gradually realized that what really kills the invisible is not a lie, but sincerity. The guards of the Nazis, the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, they were not without sincerity and piety in believing in their actions. There was no hesitation.
Devoted individuals, often admirable. However, a pious organization can easily become the starting point of killing.
"People will only kill in the name of God or for God's fakes."
Thinking of a scene in Xining, I went to the mosque to feel the crowd of worshippers. At noon, the voice of the imam echoed over the city, and I walked towards the mosque. As he walked, he suddenly raised his head, surrounded by men with white hats. A vast expanse of white. I immediately understood that if I had even said a single word to Allah right now, the people around me would kill me in an instant. I will not have the opportunity and possibility of arguing. That feeling of being alone and helpless, I still shudder thinking about it now.
And the people in the concentration camps, they don't even have to do anything wrong. Just because in that sudden conception, they are beings that must be eliminated. There was a slaughter like never before.
And the most terrifying thing is that the people who slaughtered them believed that they were right.
There is a story in the bible where a woman who had committed adultery was dragged to Jesus by a group of people who said, according to the law, we should all stone her to death. Jesus said lightly, whoever thinks he is innocent, throw a stone. Everyone was stunned and then dispersed.
I always feel that this is the most human-like group of stories I have ever read.
I have moved the stage in my heart, if during the Cultural Revolution, if during the Holocaust, we have read that a large stone would have been thrown at the woman. I don't know how many people can say firmly, no. And how many people, really under such circumstances, do not throw that stone.
And if, on condition, you don't throw a stone, it means you are guilty of her.
When a concept devours human nature, there will be only murderers, and those who acquiesce in killing others.
Write a commemorative card on the side and listen to everyone's discussion.
There is a sigh in my heart, we are all too confident. To a certain extent, we can only hope that we don't encounter such a desperate situation, that's all.
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