Sublime

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Who wouldn’t have believed it? Mona had even written it on the street once, right by the entrance of Görlitzer Park. She’d spray-painted a birthday cake and written “happy birthday leyla! berlin loves you!” under it.

In all, more than 750,000 “abnormal” or “defective” individuals were murdered. This has never been condemned as a crime against humanity.

ON APRIL 10, there were still some twenty thousand prisoners in the camp, among them a few hundred children. It was decided to evacuate all of us at once. By evening. Afterward, they would blow up the camp. And so we were herded onto the huge Appelplatz, in ranks of five, waiting for the gate to open. Suddenly, the sirens began to scream. Alert. We