Holocaust, JewishMoral and ethical aspects

Facing the Extreme

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An examination of the human capacity for moral life; reconstructs a vivid portrait of those who ran the camps and those who suffered their outrages. Also offers an elequent plea for the recognition of everyday virtues as a basis for contemporary morality.

Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish
Moral and ethical aspects
Concentration camps
Totalitarianism
Nazi concentration camps
Internment camps

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