Friday, June 3, 2011

Sign of the times

A year and a half after the entrance sign to Auschwitz was stolen and cut into pieces, authorities have decided not to restore it to its outside location. They’re going to keep it in an exhibition hall.

It’s bizarre that resources are being expended to protect that particular sign, given that the tens of thousands of the camp’s inmates must have prayed for its complete destruction. Except, of course, that it’s imperative that the generations of the future should see it and understand what happens when common citizens allow governments to do all their thinking for them.

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