Faces Of Evil

"The world is not threatened by evil people but by those who allow evil things to happen.”

Albert Einstein

The Face of Evil exhibition and book by Hans Weishäupl raises some interesting points of discussion and the video above shows how scary it is to see these faces again, for a moment when you see them moving you fear that they have come back to life and back to terrorise once more. History has given us an ability to understand the regimes of terror carried out by the person behind these faces and even more scarily some of these faces aren't from the past but are still in a position of power. However what Hans raises is an awareness that these faces are those of someone, who similar to you and I, has skin, flesh, eyes to see, ears to hear, blood and a heart needed to keep the blood flowing through their veins. However most of us would also like to distance ourselves from any similarity to The Faces of Evil and would like to have no association with people who created such hideous crimes against humanity we prefer to give them a notoriety for their crimes and a place in history that we can learn from and hold them as an example of how warped a human can become. So the question being raised is how is it that we let someone of such evil rise to a position of power to inflict such atrocities and how have we still not learnt from the past but allow this to happen again and again. As Hans says "Whilst everyone joins in to say "Never again!” after a reign of terror has ended, history shows that new tyrants can be allowed to rise to power again and again, in all parts of the world." This exhibition makes us question the role we play in this, are we maybe in some way to blame for allowing such people to rise to power? Maybe we have at some time been supporters of such evil until this evil morphed into something we lost control of?