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One common explanation for the worlds failure to prevent the Holocaust is that the information about the Nazi extermination program seemed too incredible to believe. Fifty years later, Americans may now also find it difficult to believe that their fellow citizens were among the twelve million people murdered by the…
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When I read this, I was astonished and sickened by this fact: American Jewish POWs removed from their Stalag and taken to secret slave labor death camps were abandoned by their own government. The nonfiction book shook me to the core.
I was given the privilege from this book to read the actual accountings from the survivors themselves; the faith and courage it took to survive a death camp only subsequently be forced to sign an oath of secrecy to cover up the U.S. government’s non-response was both tragic and beyond heroic.
I can’t imagine holding on to the horrors…
From Christopher's list on survival, WWII history, and the Holocaust.
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