"But let us be generous. We will not shoot them. We will not pour salt water into them, nor bury them in bedbugs, nor bridle them up into a 'swan dive,' nor keep them on sleepless 'stand-up' for a week, nor kick them with jackboots, nor beat them with rubber truncheons, nor squeeze their skulls with iron rings, nor push them into a cell so that they lie atop one another like pieces of baggage – we will not do any of the things they did! But for the sake of our country and our children we have the duty to seek them all out and bring them all to trial! Not to put them on trial so much as their crimes. And to compel each one of them to announce loudly: “Yes, I was an executioner and a murderer.”
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Selections from E18's Book Crate
Date: 2020-02-23 12:10 pm (UTC)Selections from E18's Book Crate:
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Gourevitch
Genocide: A World History, Naimark
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, Dallaire
FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations, US Army (pre war)
Machete Season, Hatzfeld (Google Translate version from French)
Homeland Operational Doctrine (post-Firecracker edition)
The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn
Bookmarked passage:
"But let us be generous. We will not shoot them. We will not pour salt water into them, nor bury them in bedbugs, nor bridle them up into a 'swan dive,' nor keep them on sleepless 'stand-up' for a week, nor kick them with jackboots, nor beat them with rubber truncheons, nor squeeze their skulls with iron rings, nor push them into a cell so that they lie atop one another like pieces of baggage – we will not do any of the things they did! But for the sake of our country and our children we have the duty to seek them all out and bring them all to trial! Not to put them on trial so much as their crimes. And to compel each one of them to announce loudly: “Yes, I was an executioner and a murderer.”