| What do German soldiers sent to the Western Front in the First World War have in common with Jews sent to death camps in the Holocaust (see photos to the right)?
Dr. Richard Koenigsberg suggests that in each case, innocent human beings were delivered to an unknown destination—where there was a high probability they would be slaughtered.
What we witness, Koenigsberg says, is a profound betrayal of trust, an experience that in each instance acted to shatter belief in the goodness of society and its leaders: human beings were transported “like sheep to the slaughter.”
This observation may seem novel at first, but like many of Koenigsberg’s insights—as Ruth Stein observes—the idea is “startling all the more for being self-evidence once it has been absorbed.”
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| The boxcars that transported Jews to
their deaths in the Holocaust were the
same boxcars that transported German
soldiers to their deaths in the First World War. |
German soldiers in cattle cars
on their
way to the Western Front in France |
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| Robert Whalen reports that after four years of battle, 2,037,000 German soldiers had died; 4,300,000 were wounded; and 974,977 reported missing or wounded. Total casualties: 7,311,977. Jews killed during the Holocaust: approximately 5,933,900 (Dawidowicz). |
Jews from the Lodz ghetto board
trains for the death camp at Chelmno |
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