Rav YBS, Festival of Freedom, pp. 17-18:
Let me… relate to you a small incident which took place in Vilna during the German occupation. I have heard that there was a Gestapo officer there who was an accomplished musician, an expert on Beethoven and Mozart. He was also an expert in killing children. He particularly liked to engage in both of his hobbies simultaneously. While he sat at a piano or organ in the courtyard of the Gestapo headquarters in Vilna, the Gestapo officers used to line up little babies and children. Ambidextrous, he played Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata with his right hand, while the left hand was busy shooting innocent babies, one by one… As a matter of fact, if you investigate the background of Hitler and his entourage, which consisted of psychopaths and maniacs, you will find among them many people with a developed sense of beauty: accomplished musicians, art critics, and the like. They loved beauty and had succumbed to beauty. But they also liked spilling blood, particularly Jewish blood. Somehow, beauty did not protect them from murder.
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Yavan represents beauty. יון is the same letters as נוי - beauty. Beauty doesn't save one from being a murderer and all other evils. Our culture worships beauty. Big mistake.
