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RE: Auschwitz, Seventy Years Later: A Short Story, and Context
Great post, @jayna.
The story and all the background make a terrific and terrifying pair.
So much in those 50-words. Great use of the elements, symbolic and otherwise. The two great wars connected by a prosthetic leg that maybe holds the answer not only to a character’s question, but to all our questions.
I've always wondered, with the Nazi holocaust being the most documented one, what goes into the minds of those who deny it and what do we make of those who support the deniers?
Thank you so much for the very nice compliment, @hlezama. Yes, I wonder that too. How do some people come to their belief that the holocaust never happened? All the evidence is there. It is absolute, indisputable fact. But people sometimes can't handle the truth. It took decades for many devotees to acknowledge that Elvis was dead, for example. And we will have our coastlines sink into the ocean before some people will admit that they should have been listening to what scientists have been saying about global warming for a very long time.
Oh, yes, that's one of those pathetic denials (in the name of progress and free enterprise).
Gun control or the lack of it is my other favorite.
No matter how many tragedies, nothing will be done. It's beyond me