Chapter 1

"With the absurd precision to which we later had to accustom ourselves, the Germans held the roll-call. At the end the officer asked 'Wieviel Stück?' The corporal saluted smartly and replied that there were six hundred and fifty 'pieces' and that all was in order. They then loaded us on to the buses and took us to the station of Carpi. Here the train was waiting for us, with our escort for the journey. Here we received the first blows: and it was so new and senseless that we felt no pain, neither in body nor in spirit. Only a profound amazement: how can one hit a man without anger?(pg. 16)"

Auschwitz was a shame to human kind. Humans are made in the image of God, with senses, with imaginations, with creativity, with love, and to merely talk about such a marvellous person as a thing is a disgrace. We are all equal in God's site. We are all human. Who made one man over another? Who appointed rulers to judge the world?. In Romans 13:1 it says that "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God." That really irritates me. How could God appoint people to rule and be unjust to those who deserve the same as us? But God had a reason for everything, even a tragic thing like WWII. But I guess that we have all been given things. We all posses certain things, and all of us unfortunately do not use then to their fullest extent. I believe that the Nazi’s didn’t use what God gave them to the extent that he wanted them to. The prisoners were wondering the same thing. How could a man beat a man without anger. How is that possible? That was possible because the concentration camp leaders appointed themselves over others. And when the did that, they could look down on others because they truly thought that those under them were no longer human. And because they treated them that way, the prisoners also learned to be less then human. They took blows and slaps that a normal human being would not be able to bear. When the prisoners were hit, they didn’t even feel pain. The Jews were deprived of the right of life, which should never be take away.