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Name: The Drowned and the Saved

Author: Primo Levi
Year: 1986
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Non Fiction, History, Biographies, War/Military, Philosophy

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ISBNs:
9780349100470
9780679721864
0349100470
067972186X

The author tries to understand the rationale behind Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Dismissing stereotyped images of brutal Nazi torturers and helpless victims, Levi draws extensively on his own experiences to delve into the minds and motives of oppressors and oppressed alike. Describing the difficulty and shame of remembering, the limited forms of collaboration between inmates and SS goalers, the exploitation of useless violence and the plight of the intellectual, Levi writes about the issue of power, mercy and guilt, and their effects on the lives of the ordinary people who suffered so incomprehendingly.

This book is part of the "Auschwitz Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Moments of Reprieve"
First published in 1981
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"The Reawakening"
First published in 1963
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"Survival in Auschwitz"
First published in 1947
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