re: #427 OhNoZombies!

re: #443 goddamnedfrank

Absolutely. It’s a difficult thing to try to see through someone else’s eyes.

It’s not about perspective at all. How many crimes we would have to justify if we merely went with perspective? From a 5.10.1941 letter of a police secretary Walter Mattner from Mogilev to his wife:

I still have something else to report to you. So I was really there at the great mass dying the day before yesterday. When it came to the first vans my hand was still trembling when I shot, but one gets used to this. When it came to the tenth van I already aimed calmly and fired surely at the many women, children and babies. Considering that I also have two newborn babies at home, which these hordes would treat just the same way, if not ten times worse. The death that we gave them was a nice, short death, compared [to] the infernal torments of thousands upon thousands in the dungeons of the GPU. Newborn babies were flying high through the air and we picked them off in flight, before they even fell into the pit or the water. Just do away with this brood that has thrown all of Europe into war and is now also mongering in America until it has also drawn the same into the war. Hitler’s word becomes true, when he once said before the beginning of the war: if Jewry thinks that it can again start a war in Europe, then Jewry will not win, but it will be the end of Jewry in Europe. […] M. has again lost a number with three zeroes, but that is of no consequence here. I am already looking forward to it, and many here say that we will go back home, for then it will be the turn of our local Jews.

See, he has excuses too. He is a product of a bestial environment and propaganda. But why exactly should I consider this perspective and look through his eyes?