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“Understanding the Holocaust is our chance, perhaps our last one, to preserve humanity. That's not enough for its victims. No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past. Perhaps it is true that to save one life is to save the world. But the converse is not true: saving the world does not restore a single lost life.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation”
― The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
― The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
“In July 1941, the local head of the SD had proposed direct killing rather than slow starvation for the jews of Lodz: "There is the danger this winter that the Jews can no longer all be fed. It is to be seriously considered whether the most humane solution might not be to finish off those Jews not capable of working by some sort of fast-working preparation. This would be in any event more pleasant than letting them starve." in a mental world where starvation was taken to be the norm, other forms of killing could be presented as a kindness.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“The dominant Roman Catholic Church in Poland took no stance against the mass murder of millions of Jews who had lived for centuries among its adherents. Catholic doctrine at the time deemed Jews collectively responsible for the killing of Jesus, and Catholic teachings about modernity connected the blight of communism to Judaism.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“Wanting to help was not enough. To rescue a Jew in these conditions, where no structure supported the effort and where the penalty was death, required something stronger than character, something greater than a worldview. Generous people took humane decisions, yet still failed. Probably most men and women of goodwill who were able to take the initial risk failed after a month, a week, a day. It was an era where to be good meant not only the avoidance of evil but a total determination to act on behalf of a stranger, on a planet where hell, not heaven, was the reward for goodness.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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