Some days ago, I watched TV, it called “IkegamiAkira’s thinking about the war SP~ dictators who made up wars and frenzy~”. I
have been interested in the story of some wars since I was an elementary school
student, so I wanted to watch this program.
Mr. Ikegami talked about “dictators”, “dictatorships”
and “the common people’s distressing life under the wartime”. And the keyword
is “FRENZY”. I was shocked by all stories and was surprised to hear that the
source which made the dictators is us, the people, who are filled with wild enthusiasm.
The most shocking fact for me is Auschwitz,
it was a concentration camp build by Jewish by themselves ordered by Hitler. I
know about the WWⅡand who Hitler is, but I have never known
the fact what was happening at Auschwitz. How terrible it was!! I could not
stop my tears… All Jewish and Polish were sent to the equipment and they were
selected if they could work or not, and the latter people were cut their hair
and sent to a gas chamber, and then were killed, after that, their skin and
gold tooth were taken away to use for government’s business, it means the
government made some pieces of paper from their skin and hair, and they made
other things with using body corpse. Jewish and Polish were selected every night,
if they became week and couldn’t work, they were sent to the gas chamber, of
course, children under 5 or 6 years old were sent. These are shoes, too small shoes which
children wore before they were killed.
After I watched this program, I considered what
the war is and why it is happened, I could reach my point of view, I think it
looks like brainwashing, it means as some of the people would not want to take
part in the war, the observation from surrounding is so strict, so they cannot
help obeying the nation. I really don’t want wars to occur again in Japan and
in the world, so we should think what the correct thing is and have to learn
about the past, which has many sad mistakes we could learn from them. To learn
the past and think about that are important things for the modern people,
especially young person.
