hey were able to retreat from their terrible surroundings to a life of inner riches and spiritual freedom." (p. 56). On love while thinking on his wife while marching: "...for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved." (p. 59) "A thought crossed my mind: I didn't even know if she were still alive, I knew only one thing - which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance." (p. 60) "Intensification of inner life" (p. 61): "escape into the past" "As the inner life of the prisoner tended to become more intense, he also experienced the beauty of art and nature as never before." (p. 62) a) Intense appreciation for beauty b) Humor: "another of the soul's weapon in the fight for self- preservation." (p. 68). "...the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative." "Gas" analogy: (p. 70). Also, the relativity of joy. See examples. c) Loss of values "...everything that was not connected with the immediate task of keeping oneself and one's closest friends alive lost its value. Everything was sacrificed to this end. A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt. Under the influence of a world which no longer recognized the value of human ...
