Last year archaeologists discovered a layer of ash five feet thick near the former crematorium at the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen. It is estimated that the ashes are the remains of "tens of thousands" of the Jews, Poles, and Soviets imprisoned at the camp during WWII. Today the ashes will be buried.

When I read the story, I was moved. I found myself unable to picture a layer of ash five feet thick, or to comprehend the mechanism that would make it, forget morally, practically possible to kill, cremate, and dispose of the ashes of tens of thousands of people.

From time to time a story like this one surfaces about the Holocaust. When one does, I'm reminded to be very suspicious of anyone that tells me that work is good for me.


No matter what anyone says, work will not make you free.

Analogcabin @ 9:03 AM
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