The Road To Heaven, Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland , originally uploaded by The Nite Tripper.

i have to write a paper for my holocaust class. i am still trying to figure out a topic.

but i have to think of one soon so i can get this done. otherwise my next month will be lived on the brink of tears. i've learned more than i want to know about it, you know?

i just cannot get over how the seemingly ordinary german people turned into such monsters. you see these pictures of people that had just dug their own graves... a line of soldiers behind them, opening fire. how could you possibly ever dig your own grave? how could you sit at the edge of a pit filled with the people killed before you? it's mind-boggling. and what the nazis did... completely turned the jewish people into something other than human.

pictures are so sad. elderly women walking children along a road they didn't realize would lead them to their death. mothers leading along their children.. completely precious little angels. i really just cannot fathom it.

i chose this picture instead of one i'm talking about because i didn't want to visually assault anyone. that's how i feel about yahoo mail when they show me these ads for a rescue group that show bear baiting and starving dogs. i really don't think it's fair that when i go to check my email, i have to get heart-sick like those pictures make me.

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