![]() ![]() The whole world looks at the mountain, the mass of death dealt by God’s creature to his fellows. One of the greatest civilized nations in the world, the age long capitol of music, has just systematically murdered eleven million human beings with the utter efficiency of a state industry. Some people will always be overcome by it, inconsolable. How can anyone still be a German? You look for parallels elsewhere and in other times, but there aren’t any. This new face of death that has been discovered in Germany – organized, rationalized – produces bewilderment before it arouses indignation. Their infants were handed over to female officials responsible for the strangling of Jewish babies and experts in the art of killing by applying pressure on the carotid arteries. In Paris, people don’t talk about the Jews yet. Seven million Jews have been exterminated – transported in cattle cars, then gassed in specially built gas chambers, then burned in specially built ovens. It is the end of the Second World War and she is wondering if her husband is still alive, thousands reenter Paris each day with scattered stories and sightings of others, and all networks are full of stories of what the Allied Forces are discovering as they march on Berlin… I am reading this book and thought this was a powerful passage. A friend recently told me that he likes to save texts, not quotes but texts, larger pieces, that he finds interesting. ![]()
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