A Letter from WWII

For class we were supposed to find these different letters and I found this one from WWII written by a man named Horace Evers. He talks about his time in Germany and the things that he witnessed there. While there he says that he was in one of Hitler's apartments, which I find fascinating that he was so close to where Hitler himself, with all of his injustices, had been at one point or another. He then writes a paragraph that really catches my attention:

"A railroad runs alongside the camp and as we walked toward the box cars on the track I thought of some of the stories I previously had read about DACHAU and was glad of the chance to see for myself just to prove once and for all that what I had heard was propaganda. But no it wasn’t propaganda at all if anything some of the truth had been held back. In two years of combat you can imagine I have seen a lot of death, furious deaths mostly. But nothing has ever stirred me as much as this (Evers)."

Talking in my Film Theory class (since we had just watched Schindler's List) I found that there are still people today that believe the Holocust never happened and was all propaganda created by the Jews. When talking about that today, this passage became even more intense. He had truely thought that it was all lies, that nothing like this was actually happening, until he actually witnessed it first hand. This makes it easier for me to realize why people were not jumping to the front line of attack against Hitler and the Germans right away, they didn't believe there was any real need, other than their attempt of spreading power across Europe of course.

This is a very delicate subject and I enjoy researching it. It is fascinating while simultaneously disturbing to learn about. The human mind in a wonderous thing, and how one mind can become so corrupt as to think that concentration camps and a genocide is okay to happen is beyond my wildest imagination.