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Title: Boil the frog.
Review: Elie Wiesel's first-hand account of living through the hellishness of a work camp gave me insight into how this happened. Just as (I hear) a frog placed in a beaker of water doesn't realize until too late that the temperature of the water it sits in is slowly rising to the boiling point, the Jews were slowly drawn more and more deeply into their situation. At each level, these civilized human beings could not fathom that life would get worse, and chose not to believe human beings could treat other human beings in ways it seemed they were about to be treated. They forgave their torturers even as the torture continued, and they assumed it was a mistake that would quickly be exposed and reversed. We all know now, sickeningly, they were much too kind in their opinion of their captors, until it was much too late. We realize, sometimes too slowly, that there is pure evil in this world.
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