History of Sorts

Gandhi once said, “A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” This is such a true statement.

The Nazis claimed to make a great nation out of Germany, but the same Nazis did not care for the weakest members. In fact, they despised them and perceived them to be a burden on the ordinary citizens. Often they would kill and/or torture them. After your death, they would steal the belongings—even if they had no use for it, like artificial limbs or other prostheses.

Often the prosthesis belonged to soldiers who had fought in World War I for Germany and suffered injuries. These heroes were suddenly a burden. If they were Jewish, they were definitely given a death sentence. Regardless of how heroically they fought to defend their nation, the Jewish citizens still saw Germany as their nation.

Then, of course, there were the Jewish and Gypsy children. (I apologize for the generic term gypsy but by writing the word Roma, I offend some people, and if I write Sinti, I offend others. That is why I am using the generic term.) They were not seen as the future of this so-called great nation but were seen as less than vermin who had to be destroyed together with their parents.

The heroic Nazis were great at killing defenceless, vulnerable people. In the end, they were nothing but cowards whose evil knew no boundaries.

I know some people will argue that with every war fought, there is collateral damage. Innocent lives get killed, which is—absolutely true. But this was different. These vulnerable people were killed face-to-face on a personal basis or in purpose-built facilities to kill en masse, anyone not desirable in the new society. Often, it was their very own people.

Sources

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

http://auschwitz.org/en/gallery/exhibits/evidence-of-crimes,1.html

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