A disturbing look at the ultimate in moral indifference during the nightmare years - the concentration camp and its civilian neighbours. Focusing on the physical space in which a community coexisted with a death camp, Horwitz probes the depths of man's capacity to suspend moral action - and consider himself neutral in the face of evil - in order to reveal how individuals could reconcile themselves to the daily horror that surrounded them.
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A disturbing look at the ultimate in moral indifference during the nightmare years - the concentration camp and its civilian neighbours. Focusing on the physical space in which a community coexisted with a death camp, Horwitz probes the depths of man's capacity to suspend moral action - and consider himself neutral in the face of evil - in order to reveal how individuals could reconcile themselves to the daily horror that surrounded them.
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Dorothy Wachtenheim dj. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Gold-stamped brown bds, with some white bits from the dust jacket stuck to it. Macmillan employee stamp verso front cover. Decent dust jacket w/ waterstain top edges. Index, a few b/w photos. 4210 shelf.
This is a well-written, thought-provoking work from a unique perspective. It asks the question, what would I have done in a similar situation? Heartbreaking and horrifying, this book challenges us never to let these atrocities happen again.
