The Human Kindness of a Prisoner

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole, it would be easy to condemn. Life in a concentration camp tore open the human soul and exposed its depths. The rift dividing good from evil reaches into the lowest depths and becomes apparent even on the bottom of the abyss, which is laid open by the concentration camp. And now to the last chapter in the psychology of a concentration camp, the psychology of the prisoner who has been released. We shall pick up the threads of that part of our narrative which told of the morning when the white flag was hoisted above the camp gates. After days of high tension, this state of inner suspense was followed by total relaxation.