Evil @ industrial scale

Rao Meka
Rao Meka
Sep 2, 2018 · 2 min read

Recently I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland while I was in Slovakia setting up our new development office for shopVOX.

There is not much I can or want to say or express the sheer evilness I could imagine that went on here.

I have no words for it except the sheer size and magnitude and length of time this has taken place at an industrial level.

Out of all the sights, the three things that overwhelm you are
1. the railway tracks on which the people were brought in
2. the chimneys and
3. the barbed wire

It proved to me that humans are worse than animals. It is fellow human beings who hurt the most not the nature, animals etc., it is we who are our own worse enemy. It is never one person who can do such acts at this scale, it takes a village (just like it takes a village to do good things) and if we bullshit ourselves saying that it is because of one X or one Y it happened, then these things will repeat over and over again. None of the world leaders stopped this from happening… so we all as humanity are to be blamed, not just one person…

My mother used to say, you should learn to forgive and move on, no point trying to hurt them back, because you wont get anything out of it other than make you an animal. I have tried a lot to not ‘get back’ at people and sometimes I fail even now, but after my visit to this place, I really want to forgive everyone who hurt me in the past and will forgive everyone who will hurt me in the future and move on with my life.

… I dont know how to express more about the atrocities that took place, just see this small video of eery images I took with back ground music from Shinderl’s list, Itzhak Perlman solo violin…

Auschwitz-Birkenau

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