Losing Trust in the World
Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture
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 Am�ry went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling.Am�ry 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 euphemi…
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Weitere Autoren: Roth, John K. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-80671-6
- EAN: 9780295806716
- Produktnummer: 22070869
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 245 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 788 KB
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Edited by Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
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