Desensitized...the devil's advocate

After reading Borowski's, "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," I found it horrifying to re-live the desensitized ways of the Nazi's. Representing the 20th century literature very well...with the psychological issues of Hitler...class issues...the need of the Nazi's to make the world culturally homogenized-anyone who is a Jew must go! The genocidal way that Hitler used to dispose of Jews is almost unbearable to read. Borowski says, "...inhumanly crammed, buried under incredible heaps of luggage, suitcases, trunks, packages...Monstrously squeezed together, they have fainted from heat, suffocated, crushed one another" (Borowski 700). Even the way they brought them in on the trucks was in itself a death sentence. What exactly did it prove? Did it help the world become a better place? I really have never understood the reason behind Hitler's motives...which I guess is a good thing. It would be scary to think you are riding a bus to the destination of death. Watching daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters walk into a gas chamber with no choice of turning back. And such a systematic way of operating the mass murders...these to the left...these to the right...you catch the next bus to the chamber. Borowski tells us that "[a]ll day, thousands of naked me shuffle up and down the roads, cluster around the squares..." (Borowski 695). The guards just sit around and wait on the next load of moaning human faces to comes rolling in on the trucks: "...the trucks have arrived, steps are being drawn up, and the Canada men stand ready at their posts by the train doors" (Borowski 700). I believe in this example of 20th century literature, the word 'desensitized' truly sums up the nature of the guards...being as how most of them were healthy Jews used for their muscle and left later to die: "I feel no pity. I am not sorry they're going to the gas chamber" (Borowski 702). I feel that this writing from Borowski helps the reader understand the morbid reality of what these people went through and what a waste of humanity took place.