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With current events such as the war in Iraq, I often ask myself how far we have actually come in evolution.<\/p>\n
With current events such as the war in Iraq, I often ask myself how far we have actually come in evolution.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Are we so different today from those war criminals like Adolf Hitler whom we despise so much?<\/p>\n
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The following quotes are taken from the book \"The Unconquered\" by Utta Danella. The book is set shortly after the end of the Second World War in the midst of a destroyed world. A destroyed world like Iraq after the American invasion.<\/p>\n
\"Slaughter, yes, that was the right word, they slaughtered each other, these brainwashed people, except that the one who had killed his brother Alexander wanted to, while the one who killed Nicolas did it because he was ordered to. That was the difference between murder and the authorised killing in war; both had to die, one as senselessly as the other. And the carnage became ever more gruesome, because death had recently been gliding along in an eerily beautiful atomic cloud, killing more people at once in a matter of seconds than ever before.
This human race was indeed in a hopeless situation and would remain in it for all imaginable time. No progress, no enlightenment and certainly no religion had ever been able to change that.\"<\/p>\n
\"On 20 November, the war crimes trials began in Nuremberg, in which the greats of the Third Reich, as far as they still existed, and some of the high military officers were put on trial. In lengthy protocols, indictments and pleas, the entire events of the last twelve years were laid out and analysed, an undertaking that lasted a year and ended with the conviction of many of these men; sentenced to years or life imprisonment, sentenced to death, in some cases by hanging, which in turn was very fatally reminiscent of the practices of the National Socialists.\"<\/p>\n
\"Would it at least do some good? Would there be no more war, no more murder, no more imprisonment for dissenters, no more torture? Would all peoples be prepared to live together in the future instead of fighting each other? Would every government in every country be ready and willing to tolerate different opinions, different ways of thinking and speaking?\"<\/p>\n
\"Enemies? (...) The only enemy he wanted to fight with all the strength and means at his disposal was war. While it may have been conceivable in the past to settle disputes between nations on the battlefield, that time was over once and for all. The anonymous killing with bombs, grenades and missiles, and more recently with nuclear bombs, had led war ad absurdum. He had seen with his own eyes what a country looked like when it was struck in this way, what became of people and animals, what became of the cities, that women and children, the old and the sick were indiscriminately mutilated, torn apart and destroyed, that people's homes were nothing but ruins, that all morals and decency were lost, that honour and pride were so deeply humiliated and, in the end, all human dignity was trampled into the dust.
That was no longer a fight, that was pure annihilation...\"<\/p>\n
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