|    | | Historian Philip Friedman provides the following eyewitness account of what happened to a young Jewish girl living in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
Zosia was a little girl ... the daughter of a physician. During an "action" one of the Germans became aware of here beautiful diamond-like eyes.
"I could make two rings out of them," he said, "one for myself and one for my wife."
His colleague is holding the girl.
"Let's see whether they are really so beautiful. And better yet, let's examine them in our hands."
Among the buddies exuberant gaiety breaks out. One of the wittiest proposes to take the eyes out. A shrill screaming and the noisy laughter of the soldier pack. The screaming penetrates our brains, pierces our hearts, the laughter hurts like the edge of a knife into our body. The screaming and the laughter are growing, mingling and soaring to heaven.
O God, whom will you hear first?
What happens next is that the fainting child is lying on the floor. Instead of eyes two bloody wounds are staring. The mother, driven mad, is held by the other women.
This time they left Zosia to her mother....
At one of the next "actions" little Zosia was taken away. It was, of course, necessary to annihilate the blind child.
-- Quoted in God At War, p33-34
The Holocaust According To Psychohistory has plenty of similar, even more horrific material, if that is possible. But it only takes one such Concrete Picture Of Evil, when faced up to squarely, to render the Problem Of Evil traditionally conceived as terminal for traditional views of God. Thus goes the argument in God At War.
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