[ConservativeDude]

An old review of a still older book. Words escape me.

[PGR88]

Indeed frightening.

Once again, the sins of collectivism on display.

[carolinablonde]

I just can’t figure out why Elie Wiesel would be such a gun control nut after experiencing what happens when a government is out of control.

[Happy Rain]

I read the book in Junior High School and it chilled me to the bones.
Later other readings of Holocaust literature made his accounts seem a bit tame in comparison if that is possible.

All through it in my sheltered Southern youth I could somewhat comprehend (not accept) in my segregated ignorance the local racist hate against the blacks because of their obvious physical differences from whites, (if lobsters looked like kittens they would not be boiled to death was the hypothesis) but Jews?

The South has overcome the ancient hates rooted in race but the world may never overcome the even more ancient hates rooted in the religious bigotry eternally directed at Jews.

[Straight Vermonter]

I had Raul Hilberg as a professor in college. As I sat in his class I had to wonder, if things went to hell for us, which of the students around me would be the prison guards or gestapo or whatever. I'm not sure we all have it in us but I think most of us do.

[MasterGunner01]

I recommend another horrifying book: “The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them” by Eugen Kogon. I read this book in paperback as a teen and its images of the monsters that ran these extermination camps is just as vivid to me today as it was them. How many Americans on the Left would become the equivalent to the SS of the concentration camps? There are many who would do as the SS did to achieve their “utopia”.

“All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing,” — Edmund Burke