Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 8551

The Situation after the War [2]

This is no time for patting the Germans on the back or embracing and consoling them. If they are allowed to get on their legs again without trouble or without making an atonement for the horror of darkness and suffering they have inflicted on the world, they will rise only to repeat their performance,– unless somebody else forestalls them. The only help we can give to Germany now is silence.

19 March 1946