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The Bookkeeper from Auschwitz

By Matthias Geyer

For two years, SS officer Oskar Gröning served in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He counted the money of dead Jews and stood guard as incoming freight trains unloaded their wretched human cargo. He says he didn't commit any crimes. For the past sixty years, Gröning has been searching for another word for guilt.

This article is so Romans 1, he harden his heart to the point where he didn't care and just did his job. His justification is nationalism and loyalty, it scares me that there are people in the world like this. Yes he is from a different “generation” but look at the world, rwanda, Kosovo, Sudan. We need these stories to be told so we don't forget. Sometimes the general over view of events blinds us to the tragics events that happened on a personal level. There were people that died and people who killed (brutally killed in many cases). When we see the thoughts of those killing and see their rationale behind why they did it and did nothing we can learn who broken humanity is broken and who much we need to be made in to ttrue humans, through Christ.

There is a surfeit at present of Christian fiction on the market, and not much of it is of any enduring or endearing value. Some of it even serves up the Christian equivalent of Harlequin romances, or even worse, bad theology written up as bad fiction (I am referring to the incredibly successful Left Behind series). In this set of circumstances perhaps a guide to the bemused and perplexed is in order. If one asks is there any good fiction out there which actually deals with the Biblical period or even some part of Christian history felicitously the answer is yes.

I enjoy Historical fiction very much, but it is very hard to fine good Christian works, mostly because they either become preachy or are trying to push a theological bent.  I enjoy the historical fictions for just that the bring of historical events to life with out making them surreal or making the protagonist a larger than life “hero”. But rather a living breathing human being.