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booksinbedinthornhill's review against another edition
A "document" that uses "the techniques of concrete and visual poetry" to present "quotations from the Holocaust's planners, perpetrators, and victims." The notes and bibliography are very helpful. Not something to which I could ever assign a star rating (!) Read it twice in one evening, and I'm sure I will read it again, and share it with others. Makes me think of the Hannah Arendt phrase "the banality of evil" as the bureaucratic and often euphemistic language of genocide is on display here for all to see. Thanks to Marc Nash of Booktube for the recommendation.
books_plan_create's review against another edition
5.0
Describing this book is something I've been thinking on for a week or two. This is essentially a true accounting of various parts of the Holocaust, and in a stark brutal honesty way since it is transcripts of letters, memos, SOP, records, etc from members of Hitler's regime, or notes from victims. It was so so hard to read-especially death counts. But I also felt it was a very important read.
raehink's review
4.0
Concrete poetry. Textual remains. Context. Translated. Disturbing.
"a methodical gibberish that replicates a deadly gibberish"
"a methodical gibberish that replicates a deadly gibberish"
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