Monthly Archives: February 2023

Zyklon B gas chamber, Majdanek In the days that followed I saw men weep while working with the pickaxe, the spade, in the trucks. I saw them carry heavy rails, sacks of cement, slabs of concrete; I saw them carefully … Continue reading →

At that time West Germany was swarming with starved, frightened, suspicious, stupefied hordes of people who did not know where to turn and who were driven from town to town, from camp to camp, from barracks to barracks by young … Continue reading →

Seymour Hersh: The longer-term outlook for Ukraine was always bleak – partly because it’s still an extremely corrupt country where Western aid is often misused. So I think Biden had a tactical interest in destroying the pipeline, because this would … Continue reading →

Matthias Schmidt, Sean Penn hat mit seiner Doku “Superpower” einen Film über die Ukraine, den Krieg gegen das Land und Wolodymyr Selenskyj gedreht. Es ist eine Liebeserklärung – mit einem unangenehmen Beigeschmack. Ganz am Ende hat man dann doch kurz … Continue reading →

What delightful days: no roll-call, no duties to perform. The entire camp stands at attention, but we, the lucky spectators from another planet, lean out of the window and gaze at the world. The people smile at us, we smile … Continue reading →

It was undeniable that the conditions in both Auschwitz and Birkenau were steadily improving. At the beginning, beating and killing were the rule, but later this became only sporadic. At first, you had to sleep on the floor lying on … Continue reading →

At that time a few dozen young writers and college graduates in the party traveled from Poland to the East and the West, either to study or to carry out special missions. From Moscow they returned with an incurable ache, … Continue reading →