Against orders, smuggling in his camera, he visited a refugee camp filled with survivors. I do not doubt for a moment that I am committing an act of treason. And yet, I am inspired by the knowledge that I have helped poor people in some small way. I was seized by terror and hurried out of the camp, my heart pounding. I was overcome by dizziness as if the earth were collapsing on both sides of me into an abyss.
War is hatred by other means.
And in this case, hatred means extermination. The First World War was the biggest war ever to dat e. The Second World War was bigger still. It's no accident, in my mind, that both of them were marked by genocide. It is the logic of the brutalization of total war.