It’s a pretty universally agreed thing upon among everyone on this green(ish) earth that Nazis have a permanent seat in Hell and won’t be leaving any time soon (unless you’re among the loud minority of lost folk who think they’re alright).
It’s nearly impossible to feel empathy towards a group of people responsible for some of humanity’s most despicable acts, which is why a photo album that’s been shared on Twitter of Nazis behaving like, well, normal people is so difficult to digest.
In an epic 38-tweet thread on Twitter, Professor McKay Smith shared a series of photos from the album of a Nazi commander who worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II, and prefaced every tweet with powerful passages from a 2008 New Yorker article by Alec Wilkinson.
Whereas most people have seen some imagery of the horrors that went down at the camp, all these photos were of Nazis just living their ordinary lives and having a good time.
It is quite simply the most evil thing we’ll ever see this year because it’s a horrible insight into just how supposedly normal humans gradually morphed into inhumane people who had no hesitation in hurting their fellow human beings.
To dance around, have picnics and enjoying the warm sunshine while being completely indifferent to the mass murder they were responsible for, not to mention the thousands of people suffering only metres away, is a level of unfathomable horror that’s just difficult to imagine.
While we’re living in times that are far better than those WWII days, the photo album is a stark reminder of the banality of evil that occasionally lingers under the facade of normality.
Since the Twitter thread for this cooked “Nazis behaving like normal people” photo album is so long, we’ve only included some of the tweets. If you want to see every entry, check out the entire thread here.