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Sunflower
Jul 29, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Why read this account of a doctor who carried out the orders of Mengele in Auschwitz? We already know of the horrors that happened there, the cruelty and unimaginable actions of human beings to other human beings, and how it ends. To me the answer is the same as given to me by survivors of the Hiroshima bomb: to remember. To make sure that this never happens again.
I found Bruno Bettleheim's forward interesting: normally the writer of an introduction to any book is supportive of the author, but
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Depressing but informative. I learned a lot about Auschwitz .
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