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Losing Trust in the World - Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture (Paperback)
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Losing Trust in the World - Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture (Paperback)
Series: Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies
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In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the
resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his
torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them
and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in
1945, Jean Amery went on to write a series of essays about his
experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling. Amery
declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the
"very first blow." The contributors to this volume use their
expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious,
and legal aspects of torture then and now. Their inquiry grapples
with the euphemistic language often used to disguise torture and
with the question of whether torture ever constitutes a "necessary
evil." Differences of opinion reverberate, raising deeper
questions: Can trust be restored? What steps can we as individuals
and as a society take to move closer to a world in which torture is
unthinkable?
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