I wrote a few more pages of the still-untitled WIP. It's coming along very well; so well that it's almost time for me to fill out an outline. But oh boy is this depressing! I've been watching real clips of Auschwitz and other death camps on YouTube. I found one picture (actually, I made a still of one of the images in one of the clips) of Hitler with some young guards behind him. They're in their early 20s, I'd guess, and there are a couple of older guys with them. They don't look nuts, but then again only the clinical ones ever do. The picture is amazing because, when I saw it, I knew I had one of my POVs: the guard who sees what's going on. I've already written his opening scenes. And I saw, with him, a few of the other characters in his POV sections. Interesting, scintillating, very dreadful. I'll try to post a clip of that for a photo so you'll see what I mean. If I do that, I want to do it right, with credit to the creators of the clip, etc. This will be one of the more awful, yet morbidly fascinating, things I've ever written and researched. I hope I can do the whole story justice. I think this one will be a bit different than what others have seen and read. If I can't do it well, without maudling and without using the atrocity as just another novel to write, then I won't do it at all. I give you my word on this.
Okay, no clip's going to happen, so here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWwl-lr9wNc&feature=BF&list=QL&index=1. The guard for the POV is the one on Hitler's left on the photo at 2:05 into it.
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