Photographer: Arnold Newman
Stories like this are why I’m absolutely convinced that if God does exist, they’re the kind of guy that likes to burn ants with a magnifying glass.
I am so sad for him.
Yep, if a god exists, they’re the biggest piece of shit ever to have existed.
The only charitable explanation I have for god is that the conditions for life on earth are just a side effect of whatever god was trying to do in another part of the universe entirely.
This galaxy isn’t full of god’s chosen. Merely the forgotten or never intended.Hell, there’s a theory that the universe we see is actually the inside of a black hole. (It’s not a super widely accepted theory, mind you.) I could accept it as god has already discarded us.
If I believed in the existence of ‘god,’ anyway.
I suppose it’s all possible, but since there is no evidence to support such claims even if only a thought experiment, I will be continuing my current belief that no god exists or ever has existed.
“If there is a god, he will have to beg for my forgiveness”
This sentence was found carved into a wall in one of the sheds in a concentration camp.
Diary of Anne Frank should be mandatory reading and is worth reading multiple times at different stages of one’s life. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is also up there.
Which version would you recommend?
I’m not sure which is considered the best but these are the ones I’ve read:
Looks more like a basement?
It’s just a really odd space, I’ve walked through. There’s a little room up those stairs with a window they used to look out of.
Ah thanks for clarifying
Bleak.
Not Fun fact: Anne Frank did not get executed. She died from disease in the concentration camp.
That’s just execution with extra steps
Stochastic execution.
So they dragged him back to that place, making him relive those memories… for a photo op?
i mean it was only 15 years later and probably the first time anyone could go back im sure a lot of people wanted to see what was left and im sure they didn’t force him if he volunteered to be photographed
it was also the day that the anne frank house opened
https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/what-we-do/otto-franks-mission/
Otto has been very vocal and active in getting his daughter’s diary published and getting her story told. It’s far more likely he dragged himself there.
Or he went back by choice and someone captured the moment? You don’t have to be outraged about everything, you know.
Presumably he could have just said no. Maybe he actually wanted to visit the last place where his family was alive
