Contempt: Holocaust — Genocide by Mats Svensson
Contempt: Holocaust — Genocide Mats Svensson Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Email Contempt is colder than hatred. Hatred burns out. Contempt survives. It does not begin with arguments. It begins in the body. Someone enters your inner world uninvited. Muscles tighten. Something withdraws. You do not want to share air with him or her. You do not want to share time. And yet you do. Contempt is when something inside you refuses reconciliation. Hitler – Treblinka I was thirteen when I read about Treblinka. Nine hundred thousand people murdered industrially. Selection ramps. Gas chambers. Bodies stacked. Women exploited, raped, then gassed if the soldier was not satisfied. Suddenly it was all there, in black and white. I remember barely being able to continue reading — and then the feeling: contempt. That was when I understood that civilization is a thin veneer. Beneath it lies the will to dominate, humiliate, annihilate. Hitler – Toulon In Toulon, 2024 I sit by the h...