No candle for Adolf

All this Nazi movies and reports swirls in my head. 60th anniversary of end of war and TV broadcasts are full of it. The fascinating, compromiseless evil. Gruesome and inconceivable of course, but also abstract in a way. I see and read all these things and know, this is how it happened. But it’s so unreal too that sometimes I’m even amused. A screaming, small man and a complete nation following him. Kills, tortures, betrayes and dies for him. Oder did they simply waited for an alibi to do all these things?

Where did all the mass murderers, torturers and sadists come from and - frightening too - where are they now? Where do they drowse? Evolution didn’t make different people out of us within just 60 years. The potential must be still here. Even though nobody admits.

Amon Göth at deathcamp Plaszow. Not a criminal then. He killed more than 500 people by his own hand. Smashed the head of a prisoner and let him report with riven head. Shot him into the back of the head after that. And was no criminal. His girlfriend loved him. He had a nice home at deathcamp and surely enjoyed a good dinner that day. That’s scurrile.

And Amon was one of many. People can also be like that if released. I don’t fool myself. [Holocaust candles].

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