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Would Minka have forgiven Josef?
Taylor
Feb 15, 2014 09:19PM
I keep thinking about how Josef lied about his true SS identity. Minka, while telling her story to Leo and Sage was led to believe that she was helping bring down Reiner, the brother who killed her best friend. Even though both brothers deserved punishment for their involvement at Auschwitz (Reiner more so than Franz), do you think she would have reacted differently if she knew it was Franz all along?
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I do think she would have forgiven Franz. Even though he was caught up in the system, he tried to be a mensch. Minka thought of Franz in the same category as Herr Bauer and the factory owner: Germans who retained their humanity.
I think she would have reacted differently if she knew it had been Franz. Franz showed kindness to her and also saved her life by sending her to the infirmary.
I don't think anyone who survived the Holocaust from WWII could "forgive" one of the Nazi SS soldiers in the same vain as we use the term today. The relationship between Franz and Minka was too complex to be defined by forgiveness.
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