Why, he wondered years later, had he not, as a reporter for the Gloucester Citizen, demanded to know what kind of trial or defence the prisoners had been allowed; or how the Nazis could morally justify incarcerating an individual simply for criticising the government? Equally shocking to the older, wiser Burn was his hypocrisy in subsequently convincing himself (and the wider world) how traumatised he had been by Dachau.
