Excerpt on war from " Diary of Ann Frank"

" As you can no doubt imagine , we often say in despair , " What's the point of the war ? Why ,oh , why can't people live together peacefully ? Why all this destruction ? The question is understandable , but up to now no one has come up with a satisfactory answer. Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction ? Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a peny is available for medical science, artists, and the poor ? Why do people have to starve when the mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world ? Oh, why are people so crazy ? The young German Jewish girl was only days away from learning the SOCIALIST explanation for the irrationality of capitalism and nation-state imperialism conflicts. And yes, this is the only RATIONAL explanation for the Holocaust which finally claimed young Ann Frank as a victim.