I was watching a program on the Holocaust recently, and having visited Dachau in the past, I was transported to the camps that were shown during this program. The evil that was perpetrated on innocent people who just happened to have been born Jewish is so hard to wrap the brain around. What do you tell yourself that allows you to discount other human beings that way? Is there a switch in the brain that you can flip so that you become a monstrous evildoer? Some of us will never understand because we just don't have the particular bent that would allow us to behave as a subhuman.
The atmosphere has changed in those places of extreme evil and sadness. For instance, in the notorious Sobibor Death Camp, the birds don't even visit and sing. There is utter and eerie stillness, as though the very air has declared that we will never be allowed to forget that this was a place of wholesale murder.
Though the Germans destroyed Sobibor Death Camp in 1944, the molecules of the air remember.
