This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
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History is all too often more frightening than the darkest fantasy.
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Oct 07, 2015 08:23PM
Want to read some of the most nightmarish and emotionally-charged horror stories imaginable? I know what I say next is going to lose me a lot of you history-challenged millennials, but try dipping a toe into the ocean of Holocaust-related books out there. What makes them scarier than anything Stephen King ever cooked up is that the horrors they portray really did happen. And not all that long ago.
Tales of events past don't have to be either dry or irrelevant. Need I say more about the latter (and latter-day) than Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, etc? As for history being dry, may I suggest Night by Wiesel, Survival in Auschwitz by Levi, and, in its way even ghastlier, This Way For The Gas. I defy the today-obsessed to read any of these and not break out in a cold sweat through their tears. And learn something about our Jekyll-and-Hyde selves in the process.
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Tales of events past don't have to be either dry or irrelevant. Need I say more about the latter (and latter-day) than Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, etc? As for history being dry, may I suggest Night by Wiesel, Survival in Auschwitz by Levi, and, in its way even ghastlier, This Way For The Gas. I defy the today-obsessed to read any of these and not break out in a cold sweat through their tears. And learn something about our Jekyll-and-Hyde selves in the process.
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