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A professor told me years ago that if I only read one more book it should be this one. I've had it on my bookshelf for years waiting for the right time and the discipline to get through it. Any suggestions?

Julie Needham If you find the historical and philosophical background in the first part of the book too hard to get through, jump ahead to the chapters on the death…moreIf you find the historical and philosophical background in the first part of the book too hard to get through, jump ahead to the chapters on the death march. Those chapters tell a riveting story. Then go back and read the whole book from beginning to end. This is a profoundly moving and thought-provoking book.(less)

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The Nazis were very much the other side of the Deutsche-Kultur coin. Nor has that tribe eliminated their aversion to Jews, And there is therefore some cosmic irony in their importation of millions of Muslims. The krauts seem destined to embrace the dark side of human affairs, prefigured by many decades of Sturm Und Drang aesthetics. And, postwar aesthetics typified by such as Lars Von Trier. No?

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what makes this book different to the many other accounts of the holocaust?

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