PROSE

  I tslk a lot about difference because to me it’s one of the most annoying trait a person could have.  The worst of the worst.
  When innocent Jewish people were dying in concentration camps outside German villages- the ash of human being’s would flow down onto their homes, onto their sidewalks, onto them.
  They acted like it was nothing, they totally “ ignored” what was happening in their own back yards.
  When the Americans liberated the concentration camps General Eisenhower witnessed first hand the artistries that had been  inflicted on millions of innocent Jewish people.
  He made it a priority that this would not be repeated therefore he allowed, photographers to take pictures, the media to come in and document and congressmen to also come in an view absolute horror. 
  General Eisenhower had stated that in order for this to not be forgotten that pictures needed to be photographed of the dead, the survivors and the conditions that innocent Jews endured.  
  Hardened combat soldiers whom spent years in a combat zone would break down in tears when seeing the  holocaust survivors.
   When soldiers would come home they refused to talk about what they saw. For some it took years to finally talk about it sometimes 70 years.
  Ignoring and going about your daily activities, to church, to work, to school - and atrocities of inhuman happenings are being done in your very surroundings and it has  no effect  on how you act - to act or behave with no concern-  that’s indifference.
  The Germans would state “ we didn’t know it was happening”.  I remember my grandmother said the same thing but she was in the United States and not privy to much information especially out on the farms.
  General Eisenhower  made the German citizens clean up the concentration camps.  He made them walk by the dead whom had been stacked up like cord wood outside the crematories and he made the German citizens bury the dead. 
 The first concentration camp to be liberated by the Americans was Ohrduf- a sub camp of Buchenwald.  What the American soldiers first encountered when walking thru the gates was decomposing bodies stacked like cord wood
  General Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley had no idea what they were walking into when they first stepped foot into the camp’s. 
 They encountered victims dead covered with lime in several rooms as well as horrendous and deplorable condition’s of filth and disease.
  Babies were bashed and thrown into ditches.  Can you imagine such a thing. It’s hard to.
  One day there will come a time when the last surviving Holocaust survivor will die.  The only thing we shall have will be the written testimonies and pictures, of what occurred.
  Indifference can also take place today in your own back yard.  Today an individual posted on social media that he was disappointed with some of his neighbors.  When going to work he came upon a fellow whom is very well know in this area.  
  The person stated that the man was bare footed, he was writhing in pain and had been trying to flag down people whom drove by for help.  Not one person stopped until this man did. 
  Now this is not a bigger inner city that this men lives in, this is a small southern community.  The person in need grew up here all his life, everyone know’s him yet no one knew him when he needed assistance.
  This man has to walk a good 5 miles to a Walmart to and fro for food.  I know there are people whom pick him up other than myself. 
  One time, I asked him did people stop and give him rides and he said sometimes but usually no they drive right on by.  
  I am in no way comparing the Holocaust to what occurred today because of course there is no comparison.
  What I am saying is that sometimes a person has to take off their rose colored glasses and do the right thing. This could happen to each of us one day no one is beyond anything happening to them at any time.