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So I got this book through a random search on my library catalogue (keyword: Warsaw). I'm not sure what I expected, but I'm sure I didn't expect to be completely blown away. It's written by a German soldier who hated the Nazis but was drafted into the war. He had spent some time in Warsaw beforehand and so loved the city as a civilian and was shocked at what happened to it. 

Of course, you can tell his guilt is there. He sees the family once and talks to them but he can't do much to save them. He wonders, of course, should he have shot a guard? What would that have done? It's a valid question we should all ask of ourselves as children are thrown into cages and separated from their parents and placed into veritable concentration camps where, like the initial stages of the Warsaw Ghetto, overcrowding was part of the punishment.
I know this, and besides a few instances here and there I do nothing.
Like I said, he asks himself the same question. He also makes it clear that the whole bit about Germans not knowing what was happening was a lie (from the early stages of death by starvation to the, quicker, mass murder). Everyone in the Army knew it. Everyone talked about it. People took pictures and even those in diplomatic circles talked about it. 
No one did anything. 
The question, then, is how are we as a country not doing more?
Why haven't I done more?
Am I a moral coward?
Are you?
I ask this question of myself a lot. 
Am I right to?
But there's another aspect of this story I want to discuss: 
That of the discovery of this book. You see I linked it above but to do so I had to do a lot of digging. First there was the fact that typing in the title and author's name gets you nothing on Amazon (see screenshot below). 
I mean, JFC.
I typed in Warsaw Ghetto and only after scrolling for  a bit did I get this book. Why is that? I don't doubt there are good books on the subject out there, but this bug annoys me. Nevertheless, it means that discovery along the normal channels are still broken. Nothing beats old school just yet. Not for breaking out of your bubble and finding true gems of imagination or, as in this case, of truth. 





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