Exhibit A: World War I and II and The End
These tanks, these ships, these guns, rovers, missiles, city tearing war machines, look peaceful sleeping upon its retired exhibition positions. I shudder at the thought of having to wake them from their rest once again someday.
The grainy black and white men jogging in the exposed plateau alongside the tanks looked like nothing but flimsy shooting targets carrying little toy guns.
The spirit of swordsmen is said to be bound to their katana. The sprawl of seven souls handed over as a sign of defeat must have wrenched a shard of their soul.
Exhibit B: You deserve a shiny medal
“Wounded and dying” was a phrase I had not associated admiration with. The lieutenant still roared his orders, as if his life was not slowing seeping away, as if he was not “wounded and dying”. It made my heart grieve and there was too much swelling in me when I knew, he knew, his fate the fatal moment the earth stained red.
Are these pretty metal stars enough? Is the life of these handsome promising young men measured in the ornamentation and the clinking, so shrill and so hollow? So ghastly and gaudily bright, plastic-like next to their shining eyes. I wish that I could give them a pair of all seeing eyes. Some of them didn’t even look into the camera, but regardless of eye contact, something rests accusingly upon me to think that they did not receive real golden stars plucked from the sky.
“Flight lieutenant Quinton’s aircraft collided with another and began to break up. He grabbed the only parachute, strapped it on the frightened air cadet with him and told him to jump. The boy was the only survivor.”
Exhibit C: The Holocaust
Germany went through 21 governments 1919-1932. Being a politician then is as good as being the replaceable cog in an outdated machine.
Book burning in the 1933 carried out in the hands of the citizens. Doesn’t this remind me of the China cultural revolution. “Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people” – Heinrich Heine
Eugenics, Aryan race science, Phrenology, all these pseudosciences are used to measure the faces and skulls of those with “Jewish faces”.
Nuremberg laws embodied the sword of justice tipped on its hilt and pointed at the Jews. There on the entire wall of white on green bled chronological, tightly scrawled laws against the Jews, the incongruity of the ease of condensation and the Long drawn out years of sufferage was stark.
Children euthanasia and mercy killings. Merciful, I see. I hope you don’t ever think they’d be happy to receive it from you.
There was a picture of a grave a trench of 7000 corpse of executed citizens. I don’t think I will ever forget how the human body, so naked and cold, was that translucent and pale like the moon, clammy upon dying warmth, heaped upon one another in a death orgy.
Chain Rumkowski had to signs deportation list to preserve the lives: “This is the most difficult of all orders I’ve ever had to carry out at any time. I reach out to you with my broken, trembling hands and I beg: give into my hands the victims, so that we can avoid having further victims and a population of a hundred thousand Jews can be preserved.”
Auschwitz is the largest and most perfected Nazi death camp, a stark white depot for a train running from its last lap. The men, before going into the gassing room, ran across as starkly naked as a waning moon. Beneath their feet were pots of violent geraniums, laughing and mourning.
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