alex714
11-23-2005, 05:20 AM
I just wanted to recommend this book to anyone intrested in the Holocaust or Nazi Occupation
I gained so much out of it, most likely because it challenged so many of my misconceptions about the moral dilemma's of resistance. In high school, when you learn about WWII and the Holocaust, resistance is so glossed over and its most likley presented as the "right" course of action to pursue by those under Nazi oppression.
But this book challenges the romantic and popular conceptions of the brave and heroic resister mosty through the Nazi Policy of Collective Responsibility (something I knew nothing about). It explores how moral resistance techniques really were, espeically in comparsion to just war theories.
Also, its indepth but not to the point of being overwhelming
and I, personally, think Bennett has an overall fair voice in weighing both the moral dillemas faced by resisters AND collaborators
I gained so much out of it, most likely because it challenged so many of my misconceptions about the moral dilemma's of resistance. In high school, when you learn about WWII and the Holocaust, resistance is so glossed over and its most likley presented as the "right" course of action to pursue by those under Nazi oppression.
But this book challenges the romantic and popular conceptions of the brave and heroic resister mosty through the Nazi Policy of Collective Responsibility (something I knew nothing about). It explores how moral resistance techniques really were, espeically in comparsion to just war theories.
Also, its indepth but not to the point of being overwhelming
and I, personally, think Bennett has an overall fair voice in weighing both the moral dillemas faced by resisters AND collaborators