Such was the empire of the camps: all who were sucked in, whether guards, doctors or inmates, were caught up inevitably in the living nightmare and adapted and lived the parts ascribed and expected of them or went insane or died or were killed, or themselves killed. It was outside imagination, a nether world where primal, forbidden urges for blood, sacrifice and subjection were licensed and given free rein on non-persons; it was the inversion of love, the ultimate fantasy of the superman and the master race where ‘sub-humans’ were reduced to ‘Mussulmen’ and ‘Mussulmen’ were despatched ‘to the
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