In the book "The Sunflower" a jew named Simon Wiesenthal is asked for forgiveness from a dying SS man. Wiesenthal is seated down to listen to all the horribly things the man has done, and then must determine whether he is to forgive him or not. 'His word was accepted". An SS man had great power back then. No one ever questioned them, and whatever they said, was believed without question.
Whether or not Wiesenthal forvives the SS man, his crimes would have still been commited, those people he killed would still be dead. So what is the point of forviness.
Forgiveness is defined as the process of concluding resentment and anger. Forgiveness is for the soul. It is for both sides. For Wiesenthal to move on, he has to let go off the past. And he can' do this until he has forgiven and forgotten. Otherwise the SS man will die without firgiveness, and Wiesenthal will always have this experience in the back of his mind. This will stop him from ever moving forward.
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