We began entering into the buildings, many of which have been turned into a museum like environment where pictures, documents, clothing, furnishings and a host of other items are on display. The first of these items which captured my attention were the documents circulated among the German officers who were in charge of this nightmare. The documents spoke of the transfer of the prisoners from various cities in Europe to the camp, the requisitioning of all that they would need to operate such a camp and the decisions that they made with regard to the ultimate fate of the people they kidnapped. Again, as with the design and construction of the camp, I was struck with the audacious and casual business-as-usual mentality of the people who wrote these documents. It was as if they were corresponding about the transfer and liquidation of cattle rather than human beings. How is it possible for human beings to come to the point in their thinking where it is a just and noble purpose to decide that other human beings are inferior and thus deserving of extreme prejudice and extinction? Were the people who made these decisions different than you and I? Did they have something in their DNA which we do not have or were they missing something which most of us possess, like a genetic element which creates the possibility for compassion?