DEADLY FINGER MOVEMENT
Victor Frankl, the eminent Psychiatrist and former inmate at a Nazi concentration camp relates his story of the “first selection” that occurred upon disembarking from the prisoner transport at Auschwitz. A tall SS officer stood in front of the prisoners as they slowly filed by. Frankl describes it in this way: “His right hand was lifted, and with the forefinger of that hand he pointed very leisurely to the right or to the left. None of us had the slightest idea of the sinister meaning behind that little movement of a man’s finger, pointing now to the right and now to the left.” (Man’s Search for Meaning). Very quickly they learned the meaning in the finger. When it pointed to the left, the victim proceeded straight through the gates into the gas chamber and crematorium. Those directed to the right earned a temporary reprieve in that they would be utilized as slave labor. That tragic account is yet another reminder of…
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