#1 Simon Wiesenthall - Sunflower
Posted: 04/11/2006 00:54
Maloprije citam ovaj tekst i moram ga podijeliti sa drugima...Mislim da je vrlo primjenjiv na situaciju u BiH i sve ono sto se desavalo.
Prepisacu najvazniji dio teksta sa engleskog, ne da mi se prevoditi (izvinite)
Razgovor autora i majke poginulog SS vojnika koji mu je priznao zlocine koje je pocinio i koji je od njega, kao jevreja, trazio oprost.
"In this district we always lived with the Jews in a very peacefull fashion. We are not responsible for their fate.
Yes, said I. That is what they all say now. And I can well believe it of you, but there are others from whom I won't take it. The question of Germany's guilt may never be settled. But one thing is certain: no German can be shrug off the responsibility. Even he has no personal guilt, he must share the same of it. As a member of a guilty nation he cannot simply walk away like a passenger from the tramcar, whenever he choses. It is the duty of Gemrnas to find who is guilty. And the non-guilty must dissociate themselves publicly from the guilty....
Today the world demand that we forget and forgive the heinous crimes committed against us. It urges that we draw the line and close the account as if nothing had ever happened.
We who suffered in those dreadfull days, we who cannot obliterate the hell we endured, are forever being advised to keep silent.
Well, I kept silent when a young Nazi, on his deathbed, begged me to be his confessor. And later when I met his mother I again kept silent rather than shatter her illusions about her dead son's inherent goodness. And how many bystanders kept silent as they watched Jewish men, women and children being led to the slaughterhouse of Europe?...
There are many kinds of silence. Indeed it can be more eloquent than words and it can be interpreted in many ways...
Was my silence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong? This is a profound moral question that challenges the conscience of reader of this episode, just as much as it once challenged my heart and my mind."
The crux of the matter is, of course, the question of forgiveness. Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.
You...can mentally change places with me and ask yourself the crucial question, "What would I have done?"
Dio koji govori o krivnji zlocinaca i pripadnika istog naroda je vrlo primjenjiv za BiH. Nazalost, za razliku od nijemaca koji su priznali odgvornost za zlocine niti u Srbiji niti u RS-u ne postoji slican osjecaj (izuzev pojedinaca - casnih).
Sljedece sto je zanimljivo je dio o onima koji su sutjeli dok su nacisti vodili zrtve u smrt. Kakva je njihova odgvornost? koliko ih je bilo u BiH koji se mozda nisu slagali s onim sto se desavalo ali nisu ni reagovali jer su se bojali za sebe i za svoj komfor?
I na kraju...sta bi ste vi uradili da dodjete u situaciju gdje vam vojnik na smarti priznaje zlocine koji je uradio nad vasim narodom i trazi oprost kako bi mogao mirno umrijeti? Da li bi vi oprostili?
Prepisacu najvazniji dio teksta sa engleskog, ne da mi se prevoditi (izvinite)
Razgovor autora i majke poginulog SS vojnika koji mu je priznao zlocine koje je pocinio i koji je od njega, kao jevreja, trazio oprost.
"In this district we always lived with the Jews in a very peacefull fashion. We are not responsible for their fate.
Yes, said I. That is what they all say now. And I can well believe it of you, but there are others from whom I won't take it. The question of Germany's guilt may never be settled. But one thing is certain: no German can be shrug off the responsibility. Even he has no personal guilt, he must share the same of it. As a member of a guilty nation he cannot simply walk away like a passenger from the tramcar, whenever he choses. It is the duty of Gemrnas to find who is guilty. And the non-guilty must dissociate themselves publicly from the guilty....
Today the world demand that we forget and forgive the heinous crimes committed against us. It urges that we draw the line and close the account as if nothing had ever happened.
We who suffered in those dreadfull days, we who cannot obliterate the hell we endured, are forever being advised to keep silent.
Well, I kept silent when a young Nazi, on his deathbed, begged me to be his confessor. And later when I met his mother I again kept silent rather than shatter her illusions about her dead son's inherent goodness. And how many bystanders kept silent as they watched Jewish men, women and children being led to the slaughterhouse of Europe?...
There are many kinds of silence. Indeed it can be more eloquent than words and it can be interpreted in many ways...
Was my silence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong? This is a profound moral question that challenges the conscience of reader of this episode, just as much as it once challenged my heart and my mind."
The crux of the matter is, of course, the question of forgiveness. Forgetting is something that time alone takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.
You...can mentally change places with me and ask yourself the crucial question, "What would I have done?"
Dio koji govori o krivnji zlocinaca i pripadnika istog naroda je vrlo primjenjiv za BiH. Nazalost, za razliku od nijemaca koji su priznali odgvornost za zlocine niti u Srbiji niti u RS-u ne postoji slican osjecaj (izuzev pojedinaca - casnih).
Sljedece sto je zanimljivo je dio o onima koji su sutjeli dok su nacisti vodili zrtve u smrt. Kakva je njihova odgvornost? koliko ih je bilo u BiH koji se mozda nisu slagali s onim sto se desavalo ali nisu ni reagovali jer su se bojali za sebe i za svoj komfor?
I na kraju...sta bi ste vi uradili da dodjete u situaciju gdje vam vojnik na smarti priznaje zlocine koji je uradio nad vasim narodom i trazi oprost kako bi mogao mirno umrijeti? Da li bi vi oprostili?
al hajd...
