History of Sorts

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I don’t like posting horrific pictures in relation to the Holocaust, or any other subject for that matter. And I don’t like it for two reasons.

Firstly, I find it physically challenging to stomach, and it generally gives me nightmares.

Secondly, we have come to live in a society where some people get offended by everything, even by the truth, or rather, especially by the truth. Instead of facing it, they complain about it and try everything to get that truth removed.

However, to me, neither of those reasons is good enough to keep from showing what hate can really do.

Buchenwald concentration camp had the particular cynical motto on its gate: “Jedem das Seine,” or “Each their own.”

Below are two pictures that were found by a US soldier after the camp was liberated. The pictures were taken by the Nazis who ran the camp. This is what they meant by “each their own. You would not do it to an animal.

As I said earlier, I don’t like posting graphic images. I think it is much more powerful to personalize the stories. But sometimes we have to be reminded by the gruesome horrors caused by hate.