Auschwitz. Ero il numero 220543
A Biography, Nonfiction, Historical book. A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole...
È possibile immaginare che qualcuno si sia introdotto volontariamente ad Auschwitz? Eppure, nel 1944, un uomo è stato capace di farlo. Denis Avey è un prigioniero di guerra inglese, che durante il giorno è costretto ai lavori forzati insieme ai detenuti ebrei. Gli basta poco per capire quale sia l’orrore che attende quegli uomini, consunti e stravolti, quando la sera fanno rientro al loro campo… Quello che intuisce è atroce, ma Denis sente di voler vedere con i propri occhi: in un gesto che pare folle, decide di scambiare la sua divisa da militare...
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- Pages: 329 pages
- ISBN: 9788854136779 / 8854136778
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They say 'stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage'. It was a quotation I knew as a boy. I had made it my own back then. I knew they couldn't capture my mind. Whilst I could still think, I was free. Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II // The screaming, shouting and aggression was designed to make you do it without thinking. This was different silent, done in the shadows, and I had felt his body weight on me in the darkness. It was him or me. That is how it is in bloody war. You make excuses to yourself all the time. Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II // He was the only man I killed with my bare hands, but it affected me all right, that one. You never forget it, never. A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body. And I have carried the feeling of that night with me for the last seven decades. Denis Avey, The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II //
Everyone I'm in two minds about this book. On one hand it's a very sad, bleak but honest description of the horrors of war and the horrible suffering of the victims of the Nazi regime. On the other it's the biography of a man who really doesn't seem very likeable.The Holocaust and other atrocities committed by the Axis powers (as well as some... Avey is an exceptionally admirable man (even more so because he doesn't flinch from the difficult decisions he made) and will remain so even if his controversial claim of role-swapping with a Jewish prisoner of Auschwitz is untrue or distorted by time and memory (see here and here ; for what it's worth, I give him the benefit of the...
