A Glimpse of History.

Despite having a liking for history and learning all I can about it, I have never had a very keen desire to learn anything too detailed about World War II though I have over the years picked up odd bits of information here and there such as who Rommel was. It wasn't until a week or two ago when my mother, my youngest brother and I were flipping channels on our television one night after dinner and stumbled upon an engaging and very interesting film based upon a true story. The movie had been made around 2002 and starred Adrien Brody: it was called The Pianist. The next day after watching the majority of this gripping movie, I reserved from our local library the movie on DVD to watch again and the original story written by Wladyslaw Szpilman. I started reading the book when my parents brought it home on Tuesday and read the majority of it yesterday afternoon, concluding the day by watching the movie with my whole family in the evening. I've never read anything quite like it before and it sure as heck beat Anne Frank's diary to dust! At the back of the book were included excerpts from the diary of Captain Wilm Hosenfeld, the German officer who saved the Jewish pianist's life toward the end of the war and the German occupation of Poland. One of the entries stood out to me more than the others and I decided to post it here for your enjoyment and perhaps enlightenment also. I give it as it was printed in the book and trust you to draw your own conclusions from it.
"1 September 1942
Why did this war have to happen at all? Because humanity had to be shown where its godlessness was taking it. First of all Bolshevism killed millions, saying it was done to introduce a new world order. But the Bolshevists could act as they did only because they had turned away from God and Christian teaching. Now National Socialism is doing the same in Germany. It forbids people to practice their religion, the young are brought up godless, the Church is opposed and its property appropriated, anyone who thinks differently is terrorized, the free human nature of the German people is debased and they are turned into terrified slaves. The truth is kept from them. They can play no part in the fate of their nation.
There are no commandments now against stealing, killing or lying, not if they go against people's personal interest. This denial of God's commandments leads to all the other immoral manifestations of greed – unjust self-enrichment, hatred, deceit, sexual license resulting in infertility and the downfall of the German people. God allows all this to happen, lets these forces have power and allows so many innocent people to perish to show mankind that without him we are only animals in conflict, who believe we have to destroy each other. We will not listen to the divine commandment: 'Love one another.' Very well, then, says God, try the Devil's commandment, the opposite: 'Hate one another.' We know the story of the Deluge from Holy Scripture. Why did the first race of men come to such a tragic end? Because they had abandoned God and must die, guilty and innocent alike. They had only themselves to blame for their punishment. And it is the same today."