Auschwitz Photo Album
I’ve just run across this photo album from the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp during WWII. If you’ve not seen it have a look. It’s from the Nazi’s point of view… so instead of bodies and death you see happy friends smiling, laughing, and having a grand old time. It’s very scary… or disturbing… or maybe just weird. I’m not exactly sure what I think of it actually… but I do know it’s important.
I think it’s important to see that these people were… well… people. They weren’t the “bad-guys” from the movies. They were people who had flaws just like you and me and had fallen so far into evil that they didn’t even worry that skulls were part of their uniforms. They were the blind being led by the blind. But they were still people, people in need of God’s grace.
It puts me in mind of Nineveh. While Nineveh was arguably the worst civilization in history (as far as cruelty and general evil) they too were still people… and God still loved them and wanted to see them saved.
I (like 99.9% of the world) am glad the Nazi’s were defeated in WWII. I’m thankful to God that He saw fit to destroy yet another “empire” that was set against Him. However, I believe that one of the great graces of God was shown in their defeat as well… the grace to allow a people as a whole to be redeemed from themselves. To give these people another chance. To allow their children, and their children’s children, to live on… in spite of the atrocities and horrors committed by their parents and grandparents… and even, to find forgiveness by the children of those who were not smiling at Auschwitz.
What a great and merciful God we serve!
September 27th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Have you been watching the series on PBS called “The War.” It’s awesome!
October 21st, 2007 at 11:57 pm
wow I stumbled in this site cuz the whole thing of the guy who was in comma and missed the iphone launchment, that turned out to be fake and the pic of the post turned out to be from your blog…anyway i liked your blog and find this post really good, it maked me think about that movie… The downfall, it tried to show the human nature of hitler and its people, the movie showed thm as real humans but a kind of brainwashed human whos values were corrupted and missed the concept of good and bad…if it was really the case it amazes me how easily can be people or even an entire nation manipulated. I was also surprised to know that very few germans knew about the jewish genocide at that time… Im shure that the grace was given to many people and that many accepted it, but I dont wana imagine what happened to those who rejected it and lead other people to commit the atrocities they did….
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:39 am
Glad you like my site… and yes, “Downfall” was a great film! It is scary how easily people seem to be brainwashed or gotten to do what we want them to do.
Derren Brown is a good modern-day example of showing that truth.