The
nazi were a large group who loved death in all its aspects. Some evil spirited
creatures that got together, organized themselves, in order to joyfully create
sufferance and murder. In this museum in St. Louis the virtual visitor learns
about the well-known T4 nazi operation (1939) – paradoxically or in a mocking
way called ‘mercy operation’ – to kill disabled people. They knew exactly what
families have a disabled child or member of a family, they knew exactly where
to go and what to say: that their loved ones will be taken to special centers
for a better treatment (in reality, experiments and murder). The loved ones
home were even receiving cards from their disabled members that they are doing
well and better. Truly evil! The hosts of the ‘Holocaust Museum & Learning
Center’ in St. Louis connect this to the official and well known ‘Arian perfect
race’ ideology, in which in 1939 the disabled had no place. In other
documentaries on this issue, I have seen calculations made by the nazi
government comparing governmental spending for educating a healthy child and
for educating a mentally or physically disabled child. I remember it was four
times more to educate disabled children. Therefore, I think the nazi needed
money for war, but they also needed a ‘superior race’-based political doctrine,
because they needed votes and mass support. The reason why I think that this ‘perfect
race’ idea was just an excuse to murder is because the Fuerher himself was not
an exponent of his own preached theory: he was definitely not blond; and his
athletic body is questionable.
The overcrowded ghettos were also a
reality – on photo, on camera and in registers. The nazis were keeping records
of all the evil they were doing. This is what the virtual visitor learns, too.
But I still did not understood why they were keeping such good records. Was it
because in their evil minds they were proud of what they were doing, and that the
sufferance of the others was amusing them and that they wanted to remember this
‘great fun’. Don’t we all usually take pictures of places we love seeing, of
people we spent great time with and we want to remember? Maybe this explains
the records, that exist on paper, on photos, on camera. Anyway, in the ghettos
people were given a kind of a toy coin as ghetto currency that was useful in
the ghetto, but not outside. The virtual tour showed the steps taken to
genocide: first the stereotypes, then the way of thinking that was in prejudice
terms, then the action of discriminating and from here to ghettos and mass
murder there was only one step.
The
large amount of records showed that the nazi were very much engaged in a
dehumanization process – a process of constant sufferance, of pain, of live
experiments, of rapes and killings that were probably satisfying their inner
evil. It must be hard for some of our Internet generation to believe such a
thing, especially when we are all ‘pals’ on Internet with all strangers and we
send each other ‘emojis’ and ‘likes’! But here is something hard to understand
for me!
I think it is courageous to leave everything behind and to
leave in the world with only a suitcase. I believe is dignifying to look for
work and make your living. At some point many people – the fact that they were
Jews is just an exacerbated detail, believers and non-believers, rich and poor,
old and young, adults and children – left to make a fresh start anywhere in the
world they would be taken, but they were not accepted and returned home,
meaning sentenced to death to Fuerher’s greatest satisfaction. And these people
were not the murders in this WWII story, but the victims, who did not look for
financial assistance anywhere, but security, the right papers to work and to
make their living. In this virtual tour, the guests learn also about some
people and some countries that made an exception: the Swiss took thousands of
Jewish children that later had no parents to return to, the Danes accepted
Jews, and some of them even reached Shanghai, where they were secure and could
work. It is hard to understand… . (to be
continued)
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