In this age of social media and 24/7 news channels, we have become accustomed to the daily barrage of grim news reports and depressing stories, from Uvalde to Ukraine. Conditioned to compartmentalize, we somehow digest the bad news and move on throughout our day. But for anyone who has set foot on the grounds of the Auschwitz death camp, there is no compartmentalizing of emotions; there is no moving on throughout the day; there is no grasping the unparalleled evil that happened here, culminating in the systematic slaughter of 6 million Jews.
How does one comprehend how a country, an army, a single person performed such daily depraved acts on other human beings? How does one grapple with the scale of these evil actions — actions that led to 6 million deaths? We simply cannot.
History does provide an understanding of how such horrors began. It started with a lie.
But history does provide an understanding of how such horrors began. It started with a lie. Then more lies. Then…
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