[colorado tanker]

Two trains on a senseless search for a death camp, both stopped. One led to a massacre by evil in a monstrous portion. The other led to freedom. I don’t know what to say; I sure can’t make any sense of it.

[henkster]

I don't think the GI's knew what to make of it; it was senseless. As we read about a week ago, the GI's felt that the peoples of Europe they most identified with were the Germans. Hard working, industrious, and orderly. Yet the Germans committed these acts of incredible brutality. It started out in a very logical, orderly and industrial process. At the end, as the regime disintegrated, it descended into an almost random capricious barbarism.

From 70 years down the road, I can only make a little sense of it. And that is that we are all sheep, programmed to "just follow orders." Or it's a human "herd instinct" since we are social animals. Once a psychotic narcissist like a Hitler, Stalin or Mao take the reins of power, there is no limit to what they can get their people to do to each other.

And as I've said many times, don't say "that can't happen here" because it has and it already is. Just suggest publicly that homosexuality is wrong and see what happens to you. We are well on our way to stuffing people into ovens. Because we were "just following orders."