Surprise! It was grim. 44 days of bombing. 70 percent of the city gone. It was awful to stand at the steps of the former department of interior building where Christian Wirth helped supervise the Action T4 (Do not click on this link if it is close to dinner time or you need to be cheerful company in a short time). The kids had stopped listening by this time and were, thankfully, picking dandelions.
This program was shut down in our region because of public outcry.
Our tour leader said that people didn't talk about the war much during the 1950s, but during the 1960s, young people started to ask the older people in the community, "Didn't you see that buses of people came in to the treatment center but no one came out?
The Nazis didn't grab an exclusive on cruelty. I wonder what our generation will face. For me, I don't want to have to look into the face of one of the more than 2 million people caught in the nightmare of human trafficking and have them say, "Didn't you notice the buses of young women going by and you didn't even ask why?" Humantrafficking.org, Love146.org, antislavery.org Please take a look if you have a moment.
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