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Night by Elie Wiesel
The Guardian ^ | December 19 2009 | Phil Mongredien

Posted on 12/21/2012 12:53:41 PM PST by ConservativeDude

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Thank you for the link. I found this quote to be particularly interesting.

Yehuda Bauer, a lifelong adversary and friend of Hilberg, who often clashed polemically with the man he considered 'without fault' over what Bauer saw as the latter's failure to deal with the complex dilemmas of Jews caught up in this machinery, recalls often prodding Hilberg on his exclusive focus on the how of the Holocaust rather than the why. According to Bauer, Hilberg "did not ask the big questions for fear that the answers would be too little."[38] or, as Hilberg himself says interviewed in Lanzmann's film, "I have never begun by asking the big questions, because I was always afraid that I would come up with small answers."

I believe this dovetails very well with Wiesel's work.
21 posted on 12/21/2012 11:19:12 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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