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“one day, a few days after the liberation, i walked through the country past flowering meadows for miles and miles[…]. larks rose to the sky and i could hear their joyous song. there was no one to be seen for miles around. there was nothing but the wide earth and sky and the larks’ jubilation and the freedom of space. i stopped and looked around. and then up to the sky. and then i went down on my knees.”

“i just sat and looked out at the flowering slopes and the distant blue hills of the bavarian landscape framed by the meshes of barbed wire. i dreamed longingly and my thoughts wandered north and northeast in the direction of my home. but i could only see clouds. the corpses near me, crawling with lice, did not bother me. only the steps of passing guards could rouse me from my dreams.”

“i saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets. proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. the truth. that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. then, i grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart. the salvation of man is through love and in love.”