I'll wait for the paperback, of course. And buy it used.
Three Deadly Days: One Town’s Experience of the Holocaust
Time would reveal who acted badly and who acted well; but Seiffert’s purpose is not to pass judgment.
Her abiding concern, ever since she learned as a child that her German maternal grandparents had supported Hitler’s Reich (her grandfather as a doctor in the Waffen SS, her grandmother as a Nazi Party member), has been to explore the motivations, contradictions and weaknesses of the bystanders, victims and perpetrators of the Holocaust.
“How does it feel to be on the wrong side of history?” she asked in the Guardian article, adding, “The times being what they are — I have found myself turning again and again to the question.”
Her new novel’s inclusive, impartial vision awakens a contemporary reader’s conscience by highlighting the individual’s role in collective error: “How we respond when a principle is at stake.”
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