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Sorry for the large fonts on my previous post.

As I was getting ready for the day to go to work I started to think about what happened during the Holocaust and all those Jewish people being murdered. I was reminded of the book that I read, "The Druggist of Auschwitz"

To be honest my mind could not fathom what happened and what the other Jewish people were forced to do. Can you put yourself in their shoes? Where they were forced to kill their own people. To watch their families, relatives and friends, neighbors being brought into the death camps, into the gas chambers and watching them walk to their death?

To watch knowing that they sat with them for hours talking and enjoying life together, watching their children being born, growing up, getting married, etc. One would have to wonder what was really going through their minds as they watched their own kind going to their deaths and they were forced to kill them.

I couldn't fathom this. To see the agony they must have gone through. To see the horror and hearing their screams for help and no one listened. One of the death camp survivors who was forced to kill his own people stated that the screams got to be too much that the German soldiers would bring in radios for them to turn on to drown out the cries and screams.

If you were forced to kill your own people, would you? Would you do so to save yourself and your family? Would you do it for a bribe?

I asked my husband this morning what he would do in this situation. He stated that he would rather they kill him before he agreed to kill anyone.

In the same book another survivor stated that when they would open the rooms to these gas room or chambers it was like hell. He stated it was just like a big pile of heap of human flesh just lying there. What sadden his heart more was that they would find babies, children, elderly and sickly people at the bottom of the heap where all the healthier men and women would be closer to the top of the heap.

"Hitler did control their men and women. That's why the murder program was so successful." I agree with Danny when he stated this.

To think that such evil would come from a man such as Hitler, when one really looks at this he was very intelligent in order to mastermind what he did. He must have thought it through many years before he came into power. To even think of the strategies and the labor that went into these camps. It was so well planned. Hitler is just as guilty as any of his followers were.

When one really thinks about this how the sin nature of man can be so evil, vile and wicked. To think that the heart can be so deceitful in all it's ways. The mind of Hitler and his men is beyond anything that I can even fathom. I am not saying that what happened at the Holocaust is not true, it is the fact that it is hard for one's mind to wrap around such evilness.

This is just my thoughts.

Moriah Ruth
 
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"Hitler et al" did control their men(and women). That's why the murder program was so successful.

Not in the early part, at the beginning of the local persecutions by ordinary Germans in ordinary towns and villages. He took direct control later, though his national henchmen.

I will have to check my paper, but as I recall my studies, the case was that, at one point, he did actually take action to calm things down because it was getting out of hand and was not authorised, at that point, by him. The general move to ethnic cleansing, by any means, at a national level, came a bit later.
 
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Sorry Avodat for the font size.

This is Trebuchet size 4 which is a nice in-between size :) and is the one I use. Changing font and size can make quite a difference. But, of course, when you type the post you can't see the final size - you have to actually post it to see what it looks like :)
 
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Yes, Avodat,

I understand what you are saying about the font size. When one gets older our eyes grow dimmer. I at times have to use large print when it comes to the computer. Also when reading a book, large print is much easier on the eyes.

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