AUSCHWITZ, A SHAME NOT FOR THE GERMANS BUT FOR THE ALL HUMANKIND.

Today from Krakow I took a bus and went to Auschwitz, a concentration camp made by the Nazis during the second world war, not for prisoners of war but manly for some people that according to the Nazis ideology they were a dishonor for the Human beings and therefore they had to be killed. As the homeless gipsy, homosexuals, handicapped mind persons and Jews, because they were successful emigrants and homeless for generations in all Europe; they were forced by the Romans to leave their home in Israel about 2000 years ago.

Approximately 7 million people, women, men and children, were killed in different concentrations camps in Poland and in Germany, the most of them were Jews, about 6 Million persons.

In Auschwitz alone around 1 Million people were murdered trough, shooting, starvation and gas. They were told to take off the clothes to take a shower, but once in the shower rooms, from the tap did not run water but gas.

It is one thing to read in books what happened here about 70 years ago and it is another thing to be here, smell the same air as the detained people did when they arrived here by train to be killed.

And why all this? Because the Nazis Ideology wanted it and their helpers hoped benefits and better chanche of lives for themselves?

But the Nazis were not extraterrestrials that did not like some parts of the mankind  and therefore they wanted to extinguish them.

The Nazis belong also to the species of the human beings, and sure, they are not alone to be put into a list of murders of this world.

The communist did the same with the death of millions of innocent Russian people that died in Siberian concentrations camps, the fascist in Italy did the same with thousands of victims, the Japanese murdered 100 thousands of civilians Chinese during their occupation in China, the Chinese suppressed and killed many Tibetan people. This list could be much longer whereat hardly one nation of this world could be left out.

As we still see violence aiming the death of innocent people, as presently often happened with bombing attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan with more than 1 Million civilians casualties and the very recent gas attack in Syria with 1400 death, women, children and men.

I am alone in the lonely one remained gas room in Auschwitz, all the other ones are ruins, they were destroyed by the Nazis before fleeing.

I look at the ceiling and see a gap with a cover; from there the gas was let run into the room killing women, men and children.

The next room is a crematorium, where the fresh dead bodies were burned.

I feel that my eyes are getting wet. I have a German passport in my pocket, but I feel not ashamed to have the German citizenship, too. But, I start feeling ashamed to belong to the species of the human beings.

At this moment, I would feel prouder to be a monkey than a human being.

Why does the sun become red at setting?

Why does  the sun become red at setting?
 Because  it blushes for shame of what it witnessed during the day. 

An exciting Moment in Warsaw

On my last day in Warsaw, I want to take the lift and go up the Palace of Culture and science, a huge building in city centre. From here, there are magnificent views over the city.

In only 30 seconds, I can hardly believe it, but I am soon on the Restaurant level, 30^th floor.

 I go around the restaurants structure along passages with view platforms taking panoramas pictures of the city, after that I take seat on a bench to relax a few minutes.

In front of me, there is one of the outlook platforms, on it there is a young man taking photos. Suddenly a man with a guitar appears and stops in front him, starting playing his guitar singing: “Halleluiah, Halleluiah, halleluiahhhh…..” Sure, a musician that wants to make some money here, I think.

I feel lucky that he did not stay in front of me, because I want to relax for a while.

The young man seems to ignore him; he goes on taking photos from the platform, while the man with guitar continues singing even louder now: “Halleluiah, halleluiah, halleluiahhhhhhhhhhh…..”

I am now curious how the scene will end. Suddenly a young woman approach the young man on the platform, maybe his girlfriend. It seems that she feels uneasy, with the man singing close by, I see her giving him some money to let him go. The artist takes the money and puts it in his pocket, but he remains there going on singing: “Halleluiah, halleluiah, halleluiah, halleluiah..”

Now the man on the platform comes down. I think he might now ask the performer to go away, but instead of this, I see him taking a red flower from his pocket, kneeing down in front of his girl friend and asking her, if she wants to marry him.

I am very surprised, even more surprised is the woman that now puts her hands on her face screaming: “Ohh my God!”

With tears in her eyes, she puts her arms around his neck saying: “YES!”

I understand now the implication of the musician that is still singing: Halleluiah, halleluiah,  halleluiahhhhh...

At once a small group, women and men, with a bottle of champagne and glasses join the couple and the man with the guitar clinging glasses for the love declaration.

Love has no borders. Congratulations to this unknown couple. I wish them a happy marriage and that the nice woman may only weep for more moments of joy and never for sorrow.

Warsaw, the resurrection of a destroyed old town

I do not believe in rebirth of human beings, but I saw today the “resurrection” of the old town in Warsaw, Poland. During the Second World War, about 75% of Warsaw was destroyed by bombs and of the old town in the city even 85%. My guide walking tour shown some pictures of that time, there was no one building standing any more.

To rebuilt the city with skylines it was not difficult now day, but to reconstruct in details an old town is a big challenge.

Street by street, stone by stone, house by house, the people rebuild the old town and the castle and if one does not know that it is a new construction, he might think: Woww, how old and romantic is this old town!

Even the Enesco was so surprised of the resurrection of the old town of Warsaw that they put it in to the list of the World Heritage Sites.

Congratulations to the human beings that can not only destroy cities but can also recreate them again as they would never been destroyed.