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Title: Victim or willing participant?
Review: This book is about a Jewish doctor who is "forced" to participate in Nazi research while imprisoned in the Auschwitz death camp. In return for his participation he was rewarded with a RELATIVELY easy lifestyle when compared with existence of the prisoners who did not have his education and experience. This is where the conflict comes into play. This is what made the book a fascinating read for me.I found myself asking the question "What would i do?" while reading this book. Here is a guy who is directly benefitting from the deaths of his fellow prisoners. Is he an evil coward? A traitor? Or should he have just hopped in to the oven, along with the other poor souls, based on some moral or ethical ideal? It's easy for me to ask this question since i was not there and have never experienced anything close to the suffering of the author and the victims of Auschwitz.This is an excellent book and i would recommend it to a friend.
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