A Jewish woman waiting before her deportation to the Westerbork camp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 1942. [400×564]

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1. That look of desperation, and she may not even have been aware just how bad it was going to be.

2. God, ze ziet eruit alsof ze wil dat het snel voorbij is.

   Ik kan iedereen ‘aanraden’ om het [Twitter account van het Auschwitz museum](https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum?t=av9eOwYMjr-eCjmTgZ-85A&s=09) te volgen. Om het nooit weer te vergeten.

3. … the crimes of Nazi Germany were not the responsibility of a handful of purely evil men.

   Those men kickstarted it, but society enabled it: a lack of critical thinking, a desensitization, a human susceptibility to totalitarianism — this is what led to the murder of millions.
   Arendt had Nazi Germany as her template, but argued systemic oppression and the gradual normalization of evil can occur anywhere, any time, and at any scale.

   https://philosophybreak.com/articles/hannah-arendt-on-standing-up-to-the-banality-of-evil/

4. I hope she survived.