Dear friend!
Some thoughts ... Some positive and some not so positive!
There is one positive reaction to Buchenwald and it is my love of Beech trees. Seeing the trees retake the land formerly devoted to munitions factories is really very soothing to my sensibilities. I very much enjoyed my walks in the forests and along the former guard routes of the SS. Inside the museum which was full of art, I had a very positive feeling. The creativity of the inmates is inspiring and the peace that a permanent memorial brings is really quite breathtaking, but what a high price. What suffering?
For me, what happened at Buchenwald and what is presently there, could be seen as somewhat like the tornadoes hitting Oklahoma, except that it happens over years, is man made, and In the period prior to their arrival, the creation process and generation of tornadoes is massively difficult to predict. There is a building up of pressure, an dedicated electrical force field is birthed that eventually brings about arrival of a massive black twisted cloud that appears out of a mysterious process and exhibits the worst of fire and furry. It's life is total destruction of most everything in its path without reason. It weaves its way across the land, pulls people out of safe homes, takes away their valued possessions and smashes innocent people to smithereens.
After the tornado, there is an eerie silence and calm but what had been there is gone. Eerily, a few people never see the tornado yet live close to its path of destruction. They carry on almost as if nothing happened! Eventually, nature takes over and if only a few have survived and there is respect for the destructive power of the tornado, the area may become a beautiful example of natural life full of beauty and growth, but absent a permanent swath of wonderful people and massive numbers of their decedents on and on into the future. It is the scale of that loss which struck me most! We will never experience the pleasure of having billions and billions of people who are the decedents of those who perished. Their histories will not be available.
It's almost certain that there will be other Buchenwalds and possibly many much worse. We really do need to understand the root causes 'as Trudeau would say' and eliminate the risk, if at all possible. In the case of tornadoes, it may have something to do with solar flares or with climate change induced by excessive activity. We can't do much about solar flares other than understand when they are likely to have an influence. With climate change, our understanding is limited and at best based on probabilities from statistics that may not reflect realities.
To be honest, I enjoyed my visit to Buchenwald. What it taught me is the need for vigilance for taking note of people who are addicted to mythologies about efficiency and performance, plan in secret, may not even know that they are mixed up in something grotesquely horrible and self destructive that needs to be stopped, have access to resources, and are unable to see the potential rainbow of reality through inclusion, cooperation and sharing.
To be honest, I enjoyed my visit to Buchenwald. What it taught me is the need for vigilance for taking note of people who are addicted to mythologies about efficiency and performance, plan in secret, may not even know that they are mixed up in something grotesquely horrible and self destructive that needs to be stopped, have access to resources, and are unable to see the potential rainbow of reality through inclusion, cooperation and sharing.
Just the same, the place has a sad statement to make and this only arises because there are real remnants of what happened there. One has no real scaling of the enormity of the crimes because nature has very speedily eliminated the evidence just as certainly as the fires inside the crematorium eliminated trace of individual human lives. No one is counting and only scratches of former realities remain. One gets the feeling that in a few years nature will have eliminated all signs that Buchenwald was of any significance to humankind whatsoever ever. It is as if nothing happened. The decay of evidence of a crime is total, permanent and unstoppable. What one sees is beauty instead? Paradoxic perhaps, but hits a the root of the motivation to carry out the crimes in the first place.
The perpetrators of the crimes win massively. They reap the rewards of their foul deed and achieve the goals of their crimes which is to create a world of fruits for their offspring from permanent disposal of people and influence of those people on the history of the future. It's the saddest of outcomes. The crimes have been committed and those that did the deeds have achieved their goal. What's more their children know it! Hence their is motivation for such cycles and crimes to be committed again. Once tasted the blood of the crime potentially forces the beast forward into cycles of destruction.
The only solution is to realise that such cycles of activity are purposefully driven by processes that have singular goals, but which end only in the death of the perpetrators. The seeds of the next destructive cycles are already planted and go about their germination unseen and virtually unstoppable? They take a slightly different form because the landscape has been permanently altered, but the force fields contained within are only crushed by higher realisations, which are not to be expected. We have to create the mechanisms of a peace!
Moral of this story is to change the landscape of opportunities for committing this type of crime. It has to be a permanent superior world court of justice and criminal investigation well researched into the processes of genocide and sufficient to the tasks of eliminating incentives for such crimes.
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