Historical Reckonings
Perverse Egalitarianism (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... the beginning of knowledge, a hint of the true reckoning with the past still to come. The author, Timothy Snyder, continues: The very reasons that we know something about Auschwitz warp our understanding of the Holocaust: we know about Auschwitz because there were survivors, and there were survivors because Auschwitz was a labour camp as well as a death factory. These survivors were...



