Humanity - Scorpions

Thought this song was the best fit for everything that’s been going on, especially my trip to Auschwitz.
I’ve been in Poland for the past few days. Due to the whole Ukrainian law/visa issues, my family had to leave the country, get a Ukrainian visa in another country, and then reenter Ukraine.



The point is we were in Poland.
We did not have time to see many things in Krakow (such as the Wawel Castle and Schindler’s Factory).
But we did have time to visit Auschwitz.








Auschwitz is more than one concentration camp, it’s a huge complex made up of many concentration and extermination camps (the most famous of which are Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II - Burenau).

The Soviet liberation was more walking into a camp of those who were left behind because they were frozen, dying, or already dead. There was no joy, only fear and hesitation from the liberated.

Broken.
Broken physically.
Broken mentally.
Broken beyond repair.

No person alive should ever feel that it is acceptable to break another human being.
But that’s what people do all the time, isn’t it?

Not to the scale of what the Nazi party did, but people still say things and do things that hurt those around them.
Apathy and pride kill inside.
Not just you, but others as well.

Cruelty knows no bounds.


Living conditions in the camp.
Three bunks (including floor)
8 to a bunk
No mattress, no pillow, no heat, maybe a thin blanket.

With the grueling labor and horrible treatment, people survived only three or four months (on average).

Humans were treated worse than animals. Everything was taken from them. Those who lived were forced to work without rest. The rest were killed. Everything was used. The hair (cloth and nets), the teeth (gold melted down into bars), and the ashes after incineration (fertilizer).

Gas chambers were created to kill off thousands of humans in 20 minutes.
People had to wait to be killed because the incinerators couldn't keep up.

Isaiah 6:5 "Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts."

Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14 "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."

What makes people think they can get away with such atrocious and appalling acts of hatred?

~ Never Again ~