In Jim Forest’s writings about holy disobedience he focused on the time during the Nazi Regime. Forest traveled to the Auschwitz concentration camp to get a better understanding of what went on during those dark days. Forest found it hard to understand how people could be treated like less than nothing at Auschwitz and how so much terror could actually occur, but then he realized that these horrid events could only be possible from obedience. On page 156 Jim Forest says, “those who ran Auschwitz and all the similar camps, from the commandants to the lowest-ranking guard, decided that it was better to obey than disobey, better to be an executioner than a victim.” This quote can resonate within its’ readers because it makes you realize that