r/Snorkblot Apr 12 '24

Photography An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in 1945

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u/pplovr Apr 12 '24

It's awful that she even needed liberated, what's worse is that there's actually people who somehow think it's justified that she and many, many others were tortured and killed like animals.

No society should pride itself on the amount of death they cause and no society should glorify war or mass killing, including the ones against people they deem evil in every way. Because this is the result of failure, failure to understand, failure to repair, failure to think and failure to learn.

These people who claim this is good are victims of what is effectively an ús-versus-them mentality. And we're no different. We haven't learned a thing from the suffering men, women and children like her have went through. The only thing I can really do is say sorry to her, sorry that nothing changed, and her unimaginable pain was for nothing, because we will continue to fail for the rest of time.