Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24694044-20140321201817/@comment-26133480-20150630210935

For me there have been two things: 1 I saw on TV and the other I experienced in person:

Richard Kuklinski, contract killer called "The Iceman" during hs reign of terror (he froze his victims, making time and method of death difficult to determine) was recorded in an interview about his crimes.

He was so disturbing to watch, since throughout the interview, he had no expression: no guilt, no remorse, not even any kind of sick pride in what he did--just spoke in a flat, even keel; especially unnerving was him saying "I beat them to death for the exercise."

The thing I saw in person--and I advise any who are not of strong stomachs to turn back now--I had been in Germany with my youth group. And one of the places we went was the remains of one of the Nazi's death camps...I'm shaking even recalling it, after more than a decade:

I saw some of the still-standing cremation ovens...and I felt like I was going to be sick. My legs turned to jelly beneath me.

And it was especially hhorrific for me in that I'm of both Polish and Slovack descent--both nationalities of which were targeted: there was an all-too-real chance that ancestors of mine who hadn't come here to America could've been in the ashes...