![]() ![]() ― Czesław Miłosz, quote from The Captive Mind We were like people marooned on a dissolving floe of ice we dared not think of the moment when it would melt away.” ![]() True, from time to time one of us dropped out, shipped off to a concentration camp or shot. Still we lived and since we were writers, we tried to write. The events we were forced to participate in resulted from the effort to put these doctrines into practice. German rule in Europe was ruthless, but nowhere so ruthless as in the East, for the East was populated by races which, according to the doctrines of National Socialism, were either to be utterly eradicated or else used for heavy physical labor. Descriptions of horrors known to us of old now made us smile at their naivete. What we beheld surpassed the most daring and the most macabre imagination. For five and a half years we lived in a dimension completely different from that which any literature or experience could have led us to know. “The War broke out, and our city and country became a part of Hitler's Imperium. ![]()
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