Selective Sensitivity
On one of his trips [in South America] ([Franz Stangl] confessed to Gitta Sereny in 1971), ‘my train stopped next to a slaughterhouse. The cattle in the pens, hearing the noise of the train, trotted…
Tag: Nazism
A Youth
The Daily Mailby Hedy Epstein In those first years of the Nazi regime, it was hard for me to grasp the import of politics writ large. However, I would soon come face to face…
A Meditation on History by Vasily Grossman
Can we call someone a great man if he has not brought into people’s lives a single atom of good, a single atom of freedom and intelligence? Can we call someone a great man if…
“Everything Must Be Told and Written Down”
Laura Jockusch, Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012). Laura Rockusch has performed an inspiring service in producing her book, Collect and Record. Contrary to many people’s assumptions…