The BBC correspondent at the memorial service at Auschwitz was visibly moved. The whole idea of the death camps is just so hard to get your head round and words seem inadequate.
Men don't cry but what else are they supposed to do?
The world leaders gathered to commemorate Auschwitz but there has to be a pinch of hypocrisy in everything they do. They wage war. They spend billions on weapons while people still starve..
I would rather listen to the voices of ordinary people. The survivors with their complex human emotions, the ordinary German civilians who honestly didn't know what was being done in their name.
I also remember the Nazis hated disabled people, gay people, trade unionists, Roma people...the list goes on. Asylum seekers would be on the list these days.
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