The German Paradox

During the war, many Europeans and Americans found it difficult to believe that Germans could act with such violence and vulgarity. However, the true horror of Nazi Germany came to light with the discovery of concentration camps where so many Jews and others deemed undesirable by Hitler were interned and murdered. Chaplain McDonald made a special point of visiting the concentration camp at Dachau to see the atrocities firsthand.

As one who had tried to alert our somnolent countrymen to this danger I felt I must see for myself whether these were just propaganda rumors, or had this been an evil all too visibly real. When I reached the gateway I saw a signed order forbidding any entry because of the danger of Typhus, but I was not to be stopped.

–Fred McDonald