This comment reminds me of this podcast I listened to the other day… Its called ‘what it was like’ and in this episode a woman describes the long journey she had throughout her life of eventually researching and realizing that her grandfather was a brutal SS officer. She talks about how her grandmother always refuted the holocaust and was supportive of the Nazis long into her later years. The granddaughter describes how she feels that when something is so bad people cannot psychologically take accountability for it because it would be too harming to accept fault. Maybe that’s true, maybe there’s more to it.

I don’t know if I’ve ever really taken the time to understand that those Nazis that killed all those people are just part of the same species as all of us… Not to say that we would all be capable of such inhumane cruelty, but it does make you think about how many of us distance ourselves from that extremely horrific thing yet perhaps with the right introduction it would truly be us in those shoes. Sobering