During the height of the battle of Stalingrad in december 1942, where between 10,000 to 14,000 russians a day were being wounded and 4,000 to 6,000 germans a day were wounded, while around 3,600 russians were dying a day, and around 1,400 germans a day. We heard a story of an extrordinary doctor who had lost an arm escaping from the encirclement n susiquent siege of Leningrad. She had lost her entire family escaping (bomb blast, She also happened to be of the Jewish persuasion. Being of one arm hindered her in the surgery arena. so she worked triage as the person to decide the priority of who got help first. She got stopped by a political officer one day (political officers under the Stalinist regime had THE POWER TO KILL YOU WHERE U STOOD..WITHOUT HESITATION), She was asked why she had been allowing wounded german prisoners ahead of wounded russians. ~~ She answered succinctly "I will treat all men equaly, russian or german, they are human beings too.". ~~ The eastern front of WW2 was especially brutal in that it was "A no quarter war", neither side took many prisoners, if either side could help it (of the 186,000 german prisoners taken at the fall of the Stalingrad pocket, only 6,000 lived to return home from Russia after the war). So a Russian Jew who had lost an arm along with her entire family, saw her home completely destroyed can show mercy and compassion as well as forgiveness under these circomstances, under the threat of death at the hands of a political officer................ ~~~~~~~~~are these not the values n spiritual convictions that lift the human spirit closer to God, would not Mohammad, Jesus, Buddha, or any saint that lived, call her a Friend? A child of God??????????????? ~ I hope you all have a great week.
