Auschwitz

So two nights ago I watched the first part of a 6-part mini series called “Auschwitz-Inside the Nazi State.” All I have to say is holy crap. I think when I learned about Nazi’s in school somebody kind of glossed over how extremely-fucking-evil they actually were/are. I was absolutely blown away by what I saw. I always knew that Hitler was evil, but for whatever reason it came as a shock to me that he had/has so many followers that to this day hold a deep seated hatred in their hearts and feel that everything they did was completely justified. They had several interviews with an SS officer who was stationed at Auschwitz the entire time it was in use by the Nazis. During the course of the interview, they asked him how he felt while he was murdering Jews and Polish prisoners inside the camp. His answer was that he felt nothing. His only thought was to take careful aim and be sure he didn’t miss. He spoke of his hatred toward the Jewish people in present tense and claimed that he would do it all again. 

I keep trying to look at the things that I learned from this documentary and say that I’ve learned something valuable. I haven’t, there is not a worthwhile lesson to be learned from this. The evil that was exhibited by the Nazi’s in WWII is of an unmatched and unimaginable scale. The only thing that you can say after having watched that is that you are left with a feeling of despair for humanity as a whole. After seeing that it is hard to imagine that there are good people in this world. It’s really rather disheartening.