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Don_Schneider
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Someone recently asked a question on the “Ask an Apologist” forum which in effect was questioning why God would alllow such evil.
It’s ironic that he should bring this up now as I am in the midst of rereading Shirer’s *The *Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. In writing on Auschwitz, he notes that the directors of I. G Farben, the giant, German chemical company, scouted out the incipient concentration camp as a good place to build a new factory; to take advantage of the cheap slave labor. Shirer, from captured documents, reproduces portions of letters by German companies placing bids for the crematoriums that they fully knew the purpose for. All these men were “pillars of the German business community; family men who attended church.”
A doctor who had been assigned to a Krupp factory in a concentration camp noted the horrendous conditions in which the slave laborers were kept and actually brought it to the attention of the Krupp management, The good doctor was fortunate that his audacious report was simply met with a collective yawn, and he didn’t wind up an inmate himself.
At least the two partners of one of the two companies that supplied the deadly Zyklon B gas were hanged after the war by the British, though the owner of the other company got off with a light sentence by a German court after the war.
Recently, PBS had on a drama set at Auschwitz in which inmates symbolically place God on trial for allowing this historical nightmare.
As the late Rod Serling would have put it: “Very little comment here, except to note what we might be capable of one day.”
It’s ironic that he should bring this up now as I am in the midst of rereading Shirer’s *The *Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. In writing on Auschwitz, he notes that the directors of I. G Farben, the giant, German chemical company, scouted out the incipient concentration camp as a good place to build a new factory; to take advantage of the cheap slave labor. Shirer, from captured documents, reproduces portions of letters by German companies placing bids for the crematoriums that they fully knew the purpose for. All these men were “pillars of the German business community; family men who attended church.”
A doctor who had been assigned to a Krupp factory in a concentration camp noted the horrendous conditions in which the slave laborers were kept and actually brought it to the attention of the Krupp management, The good doctor was fortunate that his audacious report was simply met with a collective yawn, and he didn’t wind up an inmate himself.
At least the two partners of one of the two companies that supplied the deadly Zyklon B gas were hanged after the war by the British, though the owner of the other company got off with a light sentence by a German court after the war.
Recently, PBS had on a drama set at Auschwitz in which inmates symbolically place God on trial for allowing this historical nightmare.
As the late Rod Serling would have put it: “Very little comment here, except to note what we might be capable of one day.”