Next songs, which present and raise the problems of the influence of the war on the human psyche are the stories of Tadeusz Borowski: "Farewell to Maria" and "At our Auschwitz".
Tadeusz Borowski was born in 1922 year, He had already survived his childhood and early youth in independent Poland, but during World War II he passed through the hell of concentration camps. We owe him the unveiling of the secret that the camp was wrapped. He created one of the most shocking visions, destroyed by the system, Nobody like he could give the truth about inhuman conditions and terrible experiences of people in Nazi camps and nobody could show the methods and effects of human degradation so precisely.
Tadeusz Borowski wrote the story "Farewell to Maria", He lived in Warsaw and worked in a construction composition. The author does not show us the fight against the occupier, conspiracy, but the fight for survival, Pursuit of earnings to get food, fuel and clothes.
It is tragic, that everyone pretends to be something during the war – This is the only way to save yourself.
The heroes adapt to the situation, They abandon their morality. An example is gendarmes that guard people imprisoned at school – They trade them like a commodity. Families of the victims buy their loved ones for bribes. They lost their own morality and have long drowned out the voice of their conscience, they act against the moral principles but they justify themselves, that it was the war that made them such, After all, they also have to live for something. The song shows, that no humanistic values are able to defend humanity against destruction. There is a moral fall in occupied Warsaw, People grab their lives at all costs, And they use tragic situations to enrich other people's misfortune.
In the next story of Borowski, "With us in Auschwitz", Tadeusz – The hero of the story – He wonders about the situation existing in the camp and the passivity of people led to death. The author wants not only to report camp life, but also explain to readers, How is it possible to find your place in macabre realities and get used to the all -encompassing death. He writes about the event, when it was around in front of the camp gate 10 thousands of men and cars full of naked screaming women arrived: “Save us! We're going to gas! Save us! But not a single man moved. We are dealing here with the attitude of a flexible man. All these prisoners prefer to "live" for a while than to help women.
A cruel example of adaptation and moral depravation of man by the camp is Jew Abramek, working at the chimney , who talks about the invention of a new method of setting fire to the fire. It involves joining four children's heads together and setting on their hair, and then "is burning alone". He treats the corpse of young children like pieces of tar wood for a forest.
A man in the labor camp is so enslaved by the camp reality, that he is unable to oppose evil in any way. Borowski shows the moral degradation of man in the conditions of a concentration camp and complete disappearance of dignity. Jew working at the chimney fighting for his life and afraid of the SSman, tells his own father to go to the gas chamber, Lieucting him: "Go Father, Wash yourself ".
Tadeusz still emphasizes complete passivity and lack of resistance from the victims. Prisoners forced to fight for biological survival, They get used to the daily sight of suffering and death. There are no people in the camp, There are numbers, which want to save themselves at all costs, Because alive, they are always right against the dead ";. Comes to the conclusion, that in the face of the fight for life, all morality is broken in the camp, There is a final degradation of man, Another hierarchy of human behavior is produced. People in camp conditions forget about previous ideals; "new" are created; laws that deprive a man of human feelings – Mercy, Solidarity or compassion. They are addicted to external circumstances and no previously formed moral or religious norms have an impact on their behavior.