Faces Of Evil
May. 30th, 2024 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo "Faces of Evil" says the upbeat male voice. It's a short YouTube vid.
But they don't look evil.
These are mugshots. taken by their captors....
....Of the guards at Auchswitz.
I don't suppose the cream of Germany's fighting men got that posting. None of these blokes have what I'd call a soldierly bearing. Were it not for the forage caps, the insignia, they could be clerks, shop assistants, bus conductors....
They look sad, frightened, apprehensive. One could feel sorry for them.
In the event very few of them were hanged. Most got short prison sentences. And when they emerged they sloped back onto civvy street and became.....
.....Clerks, shop assistants, bus conductors.....
But they don't look evil.
These are mugshots. taken by their captors....
....Of the guards at Auchswitz.
I don't suppose the cream of Germany's fighting men got that posting. None of these blokes have what I'd call a soldierly bearing. Were it not for the forage caps, the insignia, they could be clerks, shop assistants, bus conductors....
They look sad, frightened, apprehensive. One could feel sorry for them.
In the event very few of them were hanged. Most got short prison sentences. And when they emerged they sloped back onto civvy street and became.....
.....Clerks, shop assistants, bus conductors.....
