Auschwitz or How Human Nature Turned Against Itself
Auschwitz or How Human Nature Turned Against Itself

Summary/Abstract: When I had first heard about this topic, I wondered how it could be possible for a junior student in Political Science in Romania to explain Auschwitz. What authority (intellectual or otherwise) do I have to pretend I can explain that phenomenon? And then it struck me that it does not matter who I am, what I know (for information on the topic is easily at hand) or how I write about this. Any human being can attempt to explain Auschwitz, the Holocaust, and the extermination policy, the crimes and the Nazi manifestation of hatred – for it was precisely humanity itself which was absent in those times, places and people. Far from me the intention to turn this paper into a dramatic piece of writing aimed at bringing tears into the eyes of the reader. After all, this has been done so many times before.

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