From the Comfort of Home ~ Saturday, November 29, 2025
“Yes, he was indoctrinated,” Dr. Matthäus said of Mr. Onnen.
“But what is probably more important is that you are part of a machine, and if you don’t make a deliberate decision to get out of it, you get further drawn into this.”
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
With the help of A.I., a historian has identified the killer in a 1941 image that defined the savagery of the Nazi regime.
By Alexander Nazaryan
Nov. 28, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/science/holocaust-nazi-photography.html
“But what is probably more important is that you are part of a machine, and if you don’t make a deliberate decision to get out of it, you get further drawn into this.”
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
With the help of A.I., a historian has identified the killer in a 1941 image that defined the savagery of the Nazi regime.
By Alexander Nazaryan
Nov. 28, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/science/holocaust-nazi-photography.html
https://digital.kenyon.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2084&context=bulmash
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What anticipation at a mass grave
how the gun feels, how can you think before
afterwards, such is life, nasty and short
to imagine at arm's length as to save
as to turn around, as to face your death
not absolutely imminent, no more
tolerable than the time to abort
intolerance towards others, this mess
challenges us to see our final breath
introduction to induction, we die
perhaps not now, in this moment, the next
after an image shot with a black eye
time captured by a camera, the text
is the image of two men, as you guess
of what, where, why, and how, the conditions
never reveal by whom, the image shot
as clandestine as a report now lost
to imagine all of the renditions
apocalypse uncovers to reveal
millions murdered for whom, what have we bought
at the newspaper stand, and at what cost
simple as the Final Solution, math
serves to make such arithmetic appeal
given indoctrination of children
relinquish Never Again, what takes shape
as a gloss of history, we know when
visions of our failure, we choose to ape
endless interventions down the wrong path
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What anticipation at a mass grave
how the gun feels, how can you think before
afterwards, such is life, nasty and short
to imagine at arm's length as to save
as to turn around, as to face your death
not absolutely imminent, no more
tolerable than the time to abort
intolerance towards others, this mess
challenges us to see our final breath
introduction to induction, we die
perhaps not now, in this moment, the next
after an image shot with a black eye
time captured by a camera, the text
is the image of two men, as you guess
of what, where, why, and how, the conditions
never reveal by whom, the image shot
as clandestine as a report now lost
to imagine all of the renditions
apocalypse uncovers to reveal
millions murdered for whom, what have we bought
at the newspaper stand, and at what cost
simple as the Final Solution, math
serves to make such arithmetic appeal
given indoctrination of children
relinquish Never Again, what takes shape
as a gloss of history, we know when
visions of our failure, we choose to ape
endless interventions down the wrong path
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