In his classic The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote:

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains … an unuprooted small corner of evil.

I could not help but think of those words after my December visit to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ahead of the 80th anniversary (Jan. 27) of the Allied troops liberating those who remained after the evil Nazi regime exterminated millions.

While Auschwitz was liberated by Russian troops, the horrors that occurred there were also happening at camps Americans liberated. …

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