In at least one German town the railroad tracks ran behind the church.
An eyewitness stated:
We heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews, but we tried to distance ourselves from it, because, we felt, what could anyone do to stop it?
Each Sunday morning, we would hear the train whistle bowing in the distance, then the wheels coming over the tracks. We became disturbed when we heard cries coming from the train as it passed by. We realized that it was carrying Jews like cattle in the cars!
Week after week the whistle would blow. We dreaded to hear the sounds of those wheels because we knew that we would hear the cries of the Jews en route to a death camp. Their screams tormented us.
We knew the time the train was coming and when we heard the whistle blow we began singing hymns. By the time the train came past our church, we were singing at the top of our voices. If we heard the screams, we sang more loudly and soon we heard them no more.
Years have passed and no one talks about it now. But I still hear that train whistle in my sleep.
-- From How Do You Kill 11 Million People? by Andy Andrews
Are we doing the same thing now?
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