Auschwitz

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^ ^ We knew the deeds from the reports of survivors. We did not know the doers. The person of the doer can only be revealed by himself, and the defendants had 182 days to show who they were and who they have been and who they are now. Bernd Naumann, reporting for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, covered every single day of the proceedings; his was the most substantial and the most perceptive reportage during the trial. In book form, it confronts the reader even more directly with the accused, giving for each day the highlights of the dialogue between the participants-the accused and the witnesses, the prosecutors, the defense attorneys, and the judges. ^ ^ Whatever there is to know about the nethermost regions of Nazi Germany we now know. And we almost see the faces, ceríuínly hear the voices of those with whom the victims were confronted, the only ones who mattered to them. Bernd Naumann was wise to abstain almost completely from analysis and comment and to concentrate on the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

^ ^ We knew the deeds from the reports of survivors. We did not know the doers. The person of the doer can only be revealed by himself, and the defendants had 182 days to show who they were and who they have been and who they are now. Bernd Naumann, reporting for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, covered every single day of the proceedings; his was the most substantial and the most perceptive reportage during the trial. In book form, it confronts the reader even more directly with the accused, giving for each day the highlights of the dialogue between the participants-the accused and the witnesses, the prosecutors, the defense attorneys, and the judges. ^ ^ Whatever there is to know about the nethermost regions of Nazi Germany we now know. And we almost see the faces, ceríuínly hear the voices of those with whom the victims were confronted, the only ones who mattered to them. Bernd Naumann was wise to abstain almost completely from analysis and comment and to concentrate on the actual dialogue-the questions that were asked, the answers that were given-thus maintaining consistently the great drama of court proceedings. The documentary value of this book is of the very first order-for historians, for jurists, for political scientists, for psychologists, and, last though not least, for all those who would rather face the truth than live with illusions in self-deception. f f HANNAH ARENDT Vissza