What kind of person believes rounding up parents and children to be separated and placed in cages is serving one’s country? This question has replaced the one where I I always had in my head when I would see movies that involved Jews being herded into cattle cars and then separated for concentration camps. “What kind of person can see all that fright and terror in people’s eyes; can hear the terror in children’s heaving sobs and think they were serving the good of their country?”
I don’t care if they think they’re serving their country. I don’t care if they think are only following orders. The loud, sonorous voices of frantic children and desperate parents should give them pause.
To all who say these families deserved what they get, that they have broken the law a have to suffer the consequences, consider Anne Frank. Her family and those who shared the attic with her were also deemed “illegal”.
And whoever it was that turned her in; whoever it was who pushed her into the wagon; whoever it was who drove her to the camp; and whoever it was that passed her sick, starving body as it sat dying within the walls of Bergen-Belsen also thought it was what she deserved because her presence in the country was a violation of the law!