Saturday, February 14, 2009

I am afraid of Nazis


Whenever I have read about World War II, the thing that is always striking to me is that there were people who had so much, and then it was eroded away down to nothing. That one day, all was well; the next, all was gone. I think that there was a belief, that everything would be okay, that it just couldn't get worse. And then it did. And when I think about that, it scares the hell out of me.

I like to think that my world is save. I like to feel like everything is basically under control, and that nothing really bad is going to happen. But then I think of Nazis, and how they destroyed the worlds of so many people. I wonder, could this happen to me? Could this happen here? How quickly can everything go to nothing?

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