Say what you will about humans, but, if nothing else, we know how to hurt each other.
While reading I’m deeply reminded of silence, simply because of the way the Jewish Prisoners are punished and tortured. In Silence the Japanese knew that the best way to effectively get their message across to anyone that was suspected of harbouring the Christian missionaries they had to break them. They broke their bodies, minds, will to live and their spirits, but not only their spirits but the spirits of those that loved them. They knew that the had to dig deep and break everything that made them who they were.
In Surviving Auschwitz, the guards are doing very similar things throughout. From the moment they picked up the prisoners, they actively demeaned them and treated them like animals. They stripped them naked, kept them like that for hours at a time in a shower room with 2 inches of water and no soap, left them dehydrated for periods even longer and let them roam the yard for small portions of bread that would keep them going for oh so long. They trained them like sheep and worked them like dogs.
They even let the prisoners wonder aimlessly about whatever happened to their wives and children, stretching their mind past its limits.
It’s amplified even more when you realise that this isn’t fiction, people were actually treated this way. They actively implemented these “creative” methods of breaking the spirit of a man down to its most basic components and then stripping them of that too.
How did this make anyone else feel?? I, myself, can’t put it into appropriate words.
I commented on Abbie’s and Addison’s posts.
While reading I’m deeply reminded of silence, simply because of the way the Jewish Prisoners are punished and tortured. In Silence the Japanese knew that the best way to effectively get their message across to anyone that was suspected of harbouring the Christian missionaries they had to break them. They broke their bodies, minds, will to live and their spirits, but not only their spirits but the spirits of those that loved them. They knew that the had to dig deep and break everything that made them who they were.
In Surviving Auschwitz, the guards are doing very similar things throughout. From the moment they picked up the prisoners, they actively demeaned them and treated them like animals. They stripped them naked, kept them like that for hours at a time in a shower room with 2 inches of water and no soap, left them dehydrated for periods even longer and let them roam the yard for small portions of bread that would keep them going for oh so long. They trained them like sheep and worked them like dogs.
They even let the prisoners wonder aimlessly about whatever happened to their wives and children, stretching their mind past its limits.
It’s amplified even more when you realise that this isn’t fiction, people were actually treated this way. They actively implemented these “creative” methods of breaking the spirit of a man down to its most basic components and then stripping them of that too.
How did this make anyone else feel?? I, myself, can’t put it into appropriate words.
I commented on Abbie’s and Addison’s posts.
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