Gli assassini sono tra noi

by Simon Wiesenthal, Giorgio Brunacci (Translator)

In a drab Vienna office, a very ordinary - looking man pours over the letters and documents strewn across his desk. His name is Simon Wiesenthal. He is balding, slightly paunchy, and usually dressed in a plain, gray business suit. Yet, this man is the most feared avenger in the world, and his inconspicuous office is the center of an incredible international tracking network responsible for the capture of nearly 1,000 notorious Nazi's! Adolf Eichmann, Franz Stangl, Commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka death camps, Murer, "the Butcher of Wilna," Silberbauer, the Gestapo agent who arrested Anne Frank — the list of his "clients" reads like a Who's Who of Hell...
THE MURDERERS AMONG US is the terrifying story of this man, and of how and why he earned the label, "The world's most relentless Nazi-Hunter!"
"Reads like a fascinating detective thriller.. .You just can't lay the book down."
-SATURDAY REVIEW

"AN ABSORBING NIGHTMARE TALE...IT IS ALL TRUE, BUT THE READER MUST PINCH HIMSELF TO BELIEVE IT."
-MIAMI HERALD

Genres: History, Holocaust, Nonfiction, Biography, War, World War II, Germany

334 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Simon Wiesenthal, KBE, was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals in an effort to bring them to justice.

Following four and a half years in the German concentration camps such as Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Center in Linz, Austria, in order to gather information for future war crime trials. Later he opened Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Wiesenthal wrote The Sunflower, which describes a life-changing event he experienced when he was in the camp.

A biography by Guy Walters asserts that many of Wiesenthal's claims regarding his education, wartime experiences and Nazi hunting exploits are false or exaggerated. Walters calls Wiesenthal’s claims "an illusion mounted for a good cause". It is difficult to establish a reliable narrative of Wiesenthal’s life due to the inconsistencies between his three memoirs which are in turn all contradicted by contemporary records. It is partly thanks to Wiesenthal that the Holocaust has been remembered and properly documented.

Wiesenthal died in his sleep at age 96 in Vienna on September 20, 2005, and was buried in the city of Herzliya in Israel on 23 September. He is survived by his daughter, Paulinka Kriesberg, and three grandchildren. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles in the United States, is named in his honor.

Reviews

[Deb W · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not the 5-star block-buster book that absorbs you and makes you forget about your responsibilities, that to do list, and let's you "get away." Instead, it's the book that sobers you to life's realities and reminds you that humans are animals and it is our choices that make us humane. We are not born that way, necessarily, but we learn it by becoming compassionate through seeing suffering and empathizing with it.

Mr. Simon Wiesenthal was truly a compassionate man because even after losing his entire family to Nazi brutality, even after witnessing that brutality through four separate concentration camps, even after receiving testimonies from other witnesses for the ensuing decades after the liberation -- often for naught, he remained compassionate not only to the oppressed, but to his persecutors and their innocents.

In this book he bears witness. It is one thing to be told in the text books about the deaths of eleven million people of Europe, six million of them Jews. It is completely another thing to learn about individual Germans that committed specific crimes and got away with murder -- multiple murders, sometimes multiple thousands of murders.

Mr. Wiesenthal bears witness for the dead that cannot speak for themselves in order that the unspeakable crimes will not happen again. He saw it as his responsibility. It is our responsibility to inform ourselves in order that when we are faced with decisions, they will be humane.

[Christos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ο Σίμον Βίζενταλ περιγράφει την προσωπική εμπειρία του από το ολοκαύτωμα και επεισόδια από τη δράση του για τον εντοπισμό διάφορων γνωστών, ή λιγότερο γνωστών, ναζί εγκληματιών που είχαν κρυφτεί και διαφύγει στο χάος που ακολούθησε το τέλος του Β΄ΠΠ. Από τη διήγηση των ιστοριών του προκύπτει ότι δεν πρόκειται για κάποιο εμμονικό εκδικητή αλλά για έναν επίμονο άνθρωπο που πίστευε στην απόδοση δικαιοσύνης και όχι στην αυτοδικία. Οι ιστορίες του με απορρόφησαν.

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is both a great portrait of Simon Wiesenthal's campaign for justice for the victims of the Holocaust as well as a history of the perpetrators of Nazi crimes - the ones that escaped via ODESSA and other means, and the ones who were brought to some kind of justice. The book is filled with examples of the ideological and emotional fallout of the Holocaust - from the individuals who crossed Simon Wiesenthal's path to the greater German and especially Austrian societies characterized by varying degrees of suffering, guilt, apathy, ignorance... There are some heart-wrenching stories in this book, like the man who accompanied Wiesenthal into a castle full of prayer books of the murdered European Jewry, and found the very one his sister had written a message in moments before her arrest by the Gestapo.

However, one thing that bothered me in this book was its style, which was way too Nancy Drew - to the point of being irreverent. I guess popularization of an issue comes with its problems, but it was too much. Also, the bizarre organization of this book, despite the attempted justification in the preface, was really off-putting. The incredible character of the man who was Simon Wiesenthal also does not come out in this book - anyone who's seen "I have not forgotten you" will know what I mean. Still a great book, just could have been done better.

[Rita Costa (Lusitania Geek) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ao ler este livro, fiquei com mais conhecimento sobre o Senhor Simon Wiesenthal. Foi um livro com bastante informação sobre o famoso caça-nazi.

Havia informações que desconhecia, retrata a vida deste Senhor, as suas experiências, os seus objetivos ao longo da sua vida, como um exemplo, na contribuição da detenção do nazi - Adolf Eichmann, devolução dos quadros e outros bens perdidos dos seus donos judeus que depois ficaram na mão dos nazis e a história do diário da Anne Frank.

Recomendo ler este livro !

5 ⭐️

[Debra · Rating 4 out of 5]

A stunning primary source document for those interested in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the search for justice against those who were involved in those shameful events against humanity. The book is subtitled The Wiesenthal Memoirs after Simon Wiesenthal, who diligently pursued leads and searched for the first-hand accounts which would stand up to scrutiny in a trial situation.

It was saddening to see how quickly many on both sides wanted to see these events covered up and forgotten, and how many of the major perpetrators lived out their lives in secrecy and comfort.

[Meirav Rath · Rating 4 out of 5]

This very early Wiesenthal book is one of his best. Simon is a wonderful story teller, managing to describe his various hunts with humor and in captivating style, and when this book was writte, he was still his initial self, without too much of the world's fuss and friction around him. In this book you can also find Simon's story of his experience in the holocaust, the part he was willing to detail this early in his writing career.
Highly recommended, I enjoyed this book.

[Gail Hedlund · Rating 4 out of 5]

Persistence pays off. I think this story is a great reminder of why we cannot give up. I was appalled that nation's thought it was more important to "forgive & forget" the horrible things the Nazis did in the Holocaust. Having a statue of limitations on mass torture/murder when the Nazis had no limits really on their sadism & wealth/connections to escape (Odessa).
Wiesenthal reminds us that we CANNOT EVER FORGET!!!

[Akhil Ayarottil · Rating 4 out of 5]

The emotions felt while reading this book was difficult to explain. Someone actually had to hunt down the monsters that left one of the darkest marks on human history? Seriously? Not so proud about my species.

[Halli · Rating 4 out of 5]

How does one rate a book written by a Nazi hunter? I had difficulties with setting this book aside at times. Reading an older version printed in the 70's was fascinating as many individual's cases weren't finished at the time of printing.

I'd like to read more about the author as it seems that some of the stories are incongruent.

I certainly pray that he received closure with a few of his "clients." This book is a different WWII aspect of many I've read.

Many of the author's thoughts are disturbing in a "yikes, we should have seen this coming" as it pertains to modern day happenings.

Would recommend.

[Susan Weintrob · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a story you will never forget. Amidst the horrors of the Holocaust, Wiesenthal's humanity and integrity shines through. The title is made very clear when Wiesenthal took his daughter to a trial of a Nazi accused of a multitude of murderers. His daughter stared at the Nazi and said that he looked like everyone else. How did her father find them to bring them to justice? Her father nodded thoughtfully and told her that that was the problem. They look like everyone else and they live among us.

[Juan Hidalgo · Rating 2 out of 5]

No está mal para aquellos a quienes interesen estos temas. Revela muchos aspectos desconocidos sobre la segunda querra muncial y, en especial, detalles de los crímenes nazis. Está escrito en los años 60, de modo que habla en presente (o en pasado reciente) de muchos acontecimientos que para nosotros, hoy día, ya quedan lejos.

[Vaughn W · Rating 4 out of 5]

In light of the continued denial that the Nazi atrocities occurred, it is such a wonderful thing that Simon Wiesenthal worked tirelessly to bring the perpetrators to justice. An effort that has still not been completed. Thanks to his efforts, the world should never forget and be in danger of repeating the horror of the Third Reich.

[Pbwritr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utterly fascinating. Tale of a concentration camp survivor who then spent decades tracking down Naxi war criminals. Stories of what they did, where they hid, how they were found; along with witness accounts from those in the camps. Renewed my desire to read more about the Holocaust.

[Terry Graap · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book on the pursuit of the Nazis by Simon Wiesenthal. He lived the disgrace by the German government to rise to hunt them down.

[Steven H · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE PROFOUND AND HAUNTING MEMOIR OF THE FAMED ‘NAZI-HUNTER’

Editor Joseph Wechsberg wrote in his introductory ‘A Profile of Simon Wiesenthal’ that begins this 1967 book, “Assigned to collaborate with Wiesenthal on this book, I phoned him during the summer of 1965 to suggest that we meet and to propose that I compile the histories of a few of the most unusual among his hundreds of unusual cases.” (Pg. 2) Wiesenthal explained during a telephone call, “at least six thousand SS men worked at Auschwitz---as guards, technical personnel in gas chambers and crematoriums, medics, and office workers. Only nine hundred of them are known by name. Naturally, the SS guards didn’t introduce themselves formally to their victims. One third of the known nine hundred were handed over to the Polish authorities. Of the remaining six hundred, about half are known to us: the names and addresses are in my files… Many Nazi criminals have been acquitted, and prosecutors in Germany and Austria are reluctant to ask for an indictment unless they feel they have enough evidence to convince a jury that may well be in sympathy with the Nazi defendant.” (Pg. 5-6) Wiesenthal acknowledged, “At the end of the war, when I was liberated after almost four years in more than a dozen concentration camps, I had little physical strength left, but I did have a strong desire for revenge. I’d lost my own family. My mother had been taken away before my eyes. I thought my wife was dead. I had no one to live for.” (Pg. 6)

Author Simon Wiesenthal notes, “I also didn’t believe … when people [Germans] tried to convince me that that they had known absolutely nothing. Maybe they had not known the whole truth about what went on inside the death camps. But almost all of them had noticed SOMETHING after Hitler invaded Austria on March 11, 1938. They couldn’t help seeing Jewish neighbors taken away by men in black SS uniforms. Their children came home from school and reported that their Jewish classmates had been thrown out. They noticed the swastikas on the broken windows of plundered Jewish stores. They couldn’t ignore the rubble of the synagogues burned down during [Kristallnacht]. People knew what was going on, although many were ashamed and preferred to look the other way so they wouldn’t see too much. Soldiers and officers on leave from the Eastern Front often talked about Jewish massacres there. People knew much more than they admitted, and that is why today so many have an acute sense of guilt.” (Pg. 9)

He said of Adolf Eichmann, “He could have been executed without a trace in Argentina. But the Israelis knew it was necessary to drag him across the ocean and risk antagonizing world opinion and being accused of violating international law. Why? Because Eichmann HAD TO BE TRIED. The trial was more important than the defendant. Eichmann was already a dead man when he entered the courtroom. But the trial would convince millions of people … All of them saw the seedy, bald man in the glass box who had engineered the ‘final solution’---the killing of six million people. They heard the evidence, they read the newspapers, they saw the pictures. And at long last they knew not only that it was true but that it was much worse than anyone could imagine.” (Pg. 71-72)

He recalls, “At the Nuremberg trial I met a German who was there as a witness. I shall call him Hans… he asked Hans, ‘How did the big Nazis get away?’ ‘Didn’t you ever hear of Odessa?’ Hans asked. “…the secret escape organization of the SS underground… Odessa … has a remarkable record of getting SS criminals and Gestapo members out of the country. It has even helped them escape from prison.” (Pg. 77-79)

He reports, “I had studied books about the psychology of crime, about motivation and the early childhood of criminals, but I had made a mistake: I thought of Eichmann as an ordinary criminal, which he was not. In his … early childhood… the problems that usually lead to crime didn’t exist…. Eichmann never showed any aggressive feelings toward the local Jews. He was just another obedient, rather colorless… sergeant.” (Pg. 111)

He explains, “The name of Dr. Josef Mengele was known to all former concentration-camp inmates, even those who had never been in Auschwitz. Mengele had thousands of children and adults on his conscience: in 1944 it was he who determined which of thousands of Hungarians at Auschwitz would live or die. He particularly hated gypsies (perhaps because he looked like one) and ordered thousands killed. I have the testimony of a man who had seen Mengele throw a baby alive into a fire. Another man testified that Mengele once killed a fourteen-year-old girl with a bayonet.” (Pg. 154)

He observes, “the people of Germany and Austria are divided into three groups. There are the guilty ones who have committed crimes against humanity, although sometimes these crimes cannot be proved. There are their accomplices---those who haven’t committed crimes but knew about them and did nothing to prevent them. And there are the innocent people. I believe it is absolutely necessary to separate innocent people from the others. The young generation is innocent. Many of the young people I know are willing to walk the long road toward tolerance and reconciliation. But only if a clean and clear accounting is given will it be possible for the youth of Germany and Austria to meet the young people on the other side of the road---those who remember, from personal experience or from reports of their parents, the horrors of the past. No apology can silence the voices of eleven million dead. The young Germans who pray at the grave of Anne Frank have long understood this. Reconciliation is possible only on the basis of knowledge. They must know what really happened.” (Pg. 172-173)

He explains, “I have no personal motive for going after these jurists… But in a democracy the legal branch of the government is the safeguard of continuity, the citizen’s protection against arbitrary acts by the Executive. A rotten judiciary is the handmaiden of dictatorship. In Germany and Austria, justice was administered in the name of injustice… The Germans had invaded the Netherlands illegally… How could they establish law based on an act of lawlessness? If I break into my neighbor’s house, do I have the right to sentence him to death because he resists my attack? This is exactly what the German jurists in the Netherlands did when they sentenced Dutchmen to death.” (Pg. 250-251)

Wechsberg wrote, “Even people who were with Wiesenthal in the concentration camps are slightly awed by his fervor… Wiesenthal realizes that he seems ‘eerie’ to many people---a somewhat mystical man who has been close to death often and now takes considerable risks to carry out what many people think is a dangerous mission. His heritage of mysticism… helped him survive his long, dark journey through the concentration camps…. He feels that the whole of Jewish history is in essence the story of guilt and punishment… He believed… in the end their torturers would die too and have to account for their crimes before the court of higher justice.” (Pg. 253-254)

He reports, “Wiesenthal is often asked by his young friends, both German and Jewish, how it could happen that millions of people---Jews, Poles, Yugoslavs, others---let themselves be dragged away like cattle to the slaughterhouses, without trying to resist…. Why didn’t the vast majority of victims at least make an attempt to revolt against the tiny majority of executioners?” [Wiesenthal said] “The young people who now ask these questions were born after the war and grew up in freedom… They never really learned what fear meant. The victims of the Nazi regime had been numbed by shock long before they stepped into the gas chambers. The SS succeeded in killing their victims’ instinct of survival. Many of them no longer wanted to live; they were tired of torture… In the concentration camp society that was ruled by the SS, the [victims were] reduced to subanimal status. They registered our gold teeth. They stripped us naked. They branded our wrists. They shaved a strip in the center of a man’s hair… They did many other things until they had squeezed out of men the last reserves of human dignity.” (Pg. 259-260)

He admits, “The whereabouts of Martin Bormann remains the biggest unsolved Nazi mystery. Hitler’s chief deputy has occasioned more rumors and legends, more spilled printer’s ink than any other Nazi leader… No other prominent Nazi has been declared dead and then revived so many times.” (Pg. 319)

He concludes, “Concerning the problem of Nazism as a whole, it must be said that although more than twenty years have passed since all this happened, the foregoings in the Third Reich must still be brought to the attention of the world. The crimes of the Nazis were so terrible and unbelievable that we will be busy with them as long as our generation lives. Day after day we hear about their crimes. But the whole truth will never be known, nor will all the criminals be caught and tried. We lack hundreds of pounds of German documents which were destroyed, and before all we miss the testimony of 11 million murdered people.” (Pg. 342)

This book will be “must reading” for anyone studying the aftermath of the Holocaust.

[Jonathan Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was published over 50 years ago but is still relevant in a time of rampant antisemitism.

Simon Wiesenthal tracked down over 900 former nazis in hiding, the most famous of which was Adolf Eichmann. His efforts were vital to creating an awareness of the Holocaust, especially in countries that wanted to forget their complicitness with the nazis.

The book starts with an account of Wiesenthal's own experiences during the war, brutal treatment at the hands of the SS, how he escaped death and how he assisted the Allies to track down war criminals after the war. There are chapters devoted to specific cases where you learn about individual acts of bravery, cruelty that defies description and exactly how thorough the nazis were in their preparation of their killing machine.

Well written and despite the sensitive subject matter, an engrossing read.

The cover states "The remarkable story of one man's search for justice." I don't think that goes nearly far enough. More like one remarkable man's remarkable search for justice.

[Ceca Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Changed my life.

[Wesley Poelman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Een van de belangrijkste boeken die ik ooit heb gelezen

[Stephanie Gordon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesante. Me dejó pensando mucho.

[Elida · Rating 5 out of 5]

,,Cei drepți nu se lasă niciodată recunoscuți de ceilalți oameni. Ei apar în epocile de cumplită trebuință, își împlinesc datoria și mor.”

[Maria Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Shelly Jacobson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great

[Rose Bryant · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Informative.

[Nathan Albright · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has an interesting niche when it comes to writings about the aftermath of World War II. For a variety of reasons, I tend to reflect often about the problem of anti-Semitism [1], and this book provides the immensely worthwhile perspective of someone who barely survived World War II and then devoted his postwar life to helping bring the murderers of the SS to justice from his base in Austria. One can understand his passion for justice to the extent that one has survived injustice, and it makes for a rather chilling sort of book where over and over again the author reflects on his growing insight about the behavior of the SS, particularly among the Volksdeutsche outside of Germany who wished to prove themselves as being just as German as native Germans and as a result were often very cruel to prisoners at the concentration camps. The author movingly speaks of the experience of Jews and others (including Gypsies) who suffered at the hands of the Nazis and points a finger at many of Hitler's willing and eager executioners, pointing out that in the aftermath of WWII and the start of the Cold War that any people around the world had to deal with the corrupting influence of living among unrepentant but hidden murderers.

This book, which is more than 300 pages in length, is organized more or less in an episodic fashion, consisting of a variety of chapters of different length that detail various cases that Simon Wiesenthal was a part of, as well as giving flashbacks to his own experiences and that of others during World War II. Included are a mix of famous cases like that of Eichmann and Mengele and less familiar people including the SS officer who arrested Anne Frank and her family and a half-Jew who went undercover on Wiesenthal's behalf in the underground postwar neo-Nazi movement. Included among the chapters as well are the moving story of the Jewish boy who lit a prayer candle for himself when he was arrested by the SS because he knew that he was already dead, as well as a version of the thirty six righteous that had been the basis of a novel I had read when I was in college that also, perhaps not coincidentally, dealt with the Holocaust. The author also manages to write without too much bitterness, but with a certain amount of sarcasm, about the way that many people involved in the brutality of Hitler's Germany were doing business first or engaged in their own quests, and the author even discusses a castle that was a school for mass murder.

There are a lot of people who likely won't like this book's perspective, but the author manages to make a compelling memoir out of his efforts to close the door on Hitler's Germany by facing the truth of the incompleteness of denazification. This is a book that deals with the question of global networks of former Nazis seeking to escape the dragnet of arrest warrants and Nazi hunters and enjoy the company of others of like mind. It is perhaps somewhat ironic that many anti-Semites consider there to be a worldwide network of Jewry intent on controlling the world when this book details an anti-Jewish global network. Perhaps those who are engaged in such transnational networks themselves, and struggle with the creation of codes and secret lines of communication are prone to project upon those they seek to target the same sort of behavior that they do. Those with a guilty conscience are often quick to consider others just like themselves, and this book makes it clear that the author is quite willing to risk danger to help ensure that the horror of the Holocaust never happens again, at least not if he has anything to say or do about it.

[1] See, for example:

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2012...

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https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2016...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2015...

https://edgeinducedcohesion.blog/2014...

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[Trisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Inhoud:
Gedocumenteerd relaas van de Oostenrijker die onmiddelijk na zijn bevrijding uit het concentratiekamp Mauthausen een intensieve jacht begon op intussen naar Arabische of Zuid-Amerikaanse landen ontsnapte oorlogsmisdadigers. In dit boek vertelt Wiesenthal hoe hij erin slaagde de geheimen van ODESSA (de organisatie die oorlogsmisdadigers hielp ontsnappen) te ontsluieren en Eichmann en vele andere oorlogsmisdadigers op te sporen.

Waardering:
Het vertelt het verhaal over Wiesenthal, die gelijk na zijn gevangenschap in WOII op jacht gaat naar de mensen die dit allemaal hebben gedaan. Daarnaast vertelt hij ook over zijn gevecht met de mensen om hem heen, maar soms ook met zichzelf. Dit is een verhaal dat spreekt over de weinige mogelijkheden die Wiesenthal heeft, maar ook hoe hij tegen werd gewerkt. Maar dat zijn gezin een van de belangrijkste dingen in zijn leven was, maar dat dit gezin ook gevaar liep.

De schrijfstijl is apart, omdat het soms lastig is om je er in te verplaatsen. Maar het laat wel zien wat er speelt.
Zonder twijfel vormt dit relaas adembenemende lectuur, maar evenzeer is het ook een waardig en indrukwekkend 'In Memoriam' voor de miljoenen slachtoffers die niet vergeten mogen worden.

Overige boekinformatie:
© 1967 Elsevier
Gebonden, linnen band
368 pagina's incl. zwart/wit foto's en andere illustraties

[Kat Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives some of stories of Wiesenthal's 'clients' - the Nazis he located and help bring to justice. And some of those who managed to escape justice. It's amazing to me the perspective that he was able to maintain - he was not consumed with hate or bitterness, just a need to see justice done by all sides. He is someone I would love to meet - maybe that will be possible in the next phase of life.

[Kristin Matthews · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is well organized and well-written; truly interesting to read about the past of the author, his experiences during the Holocaust and most of all his journey fighting for justice during the decades following the war.

[Frankie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first watched the Netflix documentary called "I Have Never Forgotten You" about Simon Weisenthal, the famous Nazi hunter, which let me to this memoir. It is a remarkable story told by a remarkable man.

[Margaret Sweet · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book shortly after it was published. It has never been forgotten. It stands as a testimony to man's ability to subjugate those who are weaker or considered inferior.