I stated before how I would forgive Karl for his wrong behavior towards the Jewish people and others. The Holocaust was a tragic event and we all agree on this. When I think of the military, I think of learning respect for your commanding officers and other soldiers and civilians. Karl was ordered to shoot anyone who was trying to escape the burning house, so he listened to his orders when a family jumped. If I had been there in Karl's shoes, I for one would have shot the family as they jumped, even though it would have been wrong and I wouldn't have wanted it too. In responses to the symposium, Lawrence L. Langer stated, "When we call the murder of a defenseless Jewish father and child 'wrong,' we ease the crime into the realm of familial and forgivable transgressions and relieve ourselves of the burden of addressing its total horror" (188). No matter what word we use to describe the killing of millions of defenseless Jews, it will still sound like Langer