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If This Is a Man - reread after 30 years. And to me it is as profoundly moving and admirable as the first time I read it.

Asked by students why there are no expressions of hatred towards the Germans he answered:

I am not by nature a person easily roused to hatred. I consider it a crude and brutish feeling, and I prefer my actions and thoughts, as far as possible, to be based, instead, on reason…