“Good Morning San Francisco” decided to dedicate a day to Simon Wiesenthal's book, The Sunflower. Wiesenthal decides to pose a question when he was placed in a room with a dying SS man. The SS man, Karl, asked Wiesenthal for forgiveness of what he had done. Wiesenthal’s choice was silence, but as the story continues and his struggle goes on of being haunted by this man he poses a question. Should Karl the dying SS man be forgiven for the murders he has committed?
Tanner: Good morning San Francisco! I'm your host Danny Tanner and today we have a special show prepared for everyone. Today's topic is on the case of forgiveness, and we are using Simon Wiesenthal’s book The Sunflower to initiate our talk. Joining us today are two correspondents from the actual book, Edward H. Flannery and Moshe Bejski. For those of you who don’t know Edward H. Flannery is a Roman Catholic priest who served as a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’. Next we have Moshe Bejski which during his younger years was interned in several concentration camps during WWII, but has risen to serve in the Commission for Recognition of Righteous Gentiles at …show more content…
Thank you all for having me here today and Mr. Flannery a pleasure to meet you. I’d like to end off by stating why I don’t think forgiveness can be given. I feel that with forgiveness on tends to forget the actions that took place. The actions committed by Nazis are to horrendous to ever forget. Yet the world has begun to forget about those involved even allowing them to return peacefully to their homes. This cannot be forgotten by anyone if justice wants to be made. We should not forget that during the debates of the 1960s establishing penalties for the genocide and crimes committed against humanity couldn't be made. This was because there hadn’t been a previous record of anything so cruel and horrifying. To forgive seems to be the turn of the head to forget the actions that took
Tanner: Good morning San Francisco! I'm your host Danny Tanner and today we have a special show prepared for everyone. Today's topic is on the case of forgiveness, and we are using Simon Wiesenthal’s book The Sunflower to initiate our talk. Joining us today are two correspondents from the actual book, Edward H. Flannery and Moshe Bejski. For those of you who don’t know Edward H. Flannery is a Roman Catholic priest who served as a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops’. Next we have Moshe Bejski which during his younger years was interned in several concentration camps during WWII, but has risen to serve in the Commission for Recognition of Righteous Gentiles at …show more content…
Thank you all for having me here today and Mr. Flannery a pleasure to meet you. I’d like to end off by stating why I don’t think forgiveness can be given. I feel that with forgiveness on tends to forget the actions that took place. The actions committed by Nazis are to horrendous to ever forget. Yet the world has begun to forget about those involved even allowing them to return peacefully to their homes. This cannot be forgotten by anyone if justice wants to be made. We should not forget that during the debates of the 1960s establishing penalties for the genocide and crimes committed against humanity couldn't be made. This was because there hadn’t been a previous record of anything so cruel and horrifying. To forgive seems to be the turn of the head to forget the actions that took