Societies tend to live within self-produced bubbles of isolation that prevent the truth of a brutal world from reaching themselves. However, when one isolates themself from the reality they create their own destorted reality that allows greater attrocities to happen. In Heart of Darkness Kurtz created his own isolated society within the indigenious population, where he was at the head of the societal order. Similarly Hitlar isolated his people from the true scope of his *(german name for final solution)* and as a result where powerless to act due to a lack of information . Just as Marlow refrained from telling the widow the true final words of Kurtz to protect her from the monstrocity he had become, Hitler refrained from informing the German people of the crimes 'they' were committing. The corrilation of both World World wars and Heart of Darkness highlights a weakness within society to want to beleive they are doing things properly, but are blindly being led into a real heart of darkeness. Unfortunaltely even those who want to be consious and wear of these action to help prevent them are greatly disabled by the suspense of disbelief and distrought at what such actions can create. As one American solider commented when he was leading citizens of Berlin through a nearbye concentration camp, "(they couldn't believe this was happening next to them, that they where doing this, they where allowing this. They simply had no idea").
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