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| | Herbert Marcuse, response, in S. Wiesenthal, The Sunflower (1976) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | For the 1976 edition of Simon Wiesenthal's autobiographical story The Sunflower, thirty-two "eminent persons" gave their opinions about whether Wiesenthal should have forgiven the SS man who requested it of the young Jewish Wiesenthal as the SS man lay dying. |
 | | South African bishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, West German President Gustav Heinemann, Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Kempner, Auschwitz survivor-author Primo Levi, novelist Cynthia Ozick, journalist Terrence Prittie, German novelist Luise Rinser, pre-Nazi Austrian chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg, and German-French émigré author Manès Sperber are among the other respondants. |
 | | I think I would have acted the way you did, that is to say, refused the request of the dying SS man. It always seemed to me inhuman and a travesty of justice if the executioner asked the victim to forgive. |
| www.marcuse.org /herbert/pubs/70spubs/76HerbSunflower.htm (345 words) |
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