Abstract
“Disappointment often has been voiced, with a gratuitous condescension that presumes to excuse as it heaps scorn, at the silence and the obedient grief with which the vast majority of the Jewish victims [in Nazi Germany] accepted their doom. They cooperated, it is alleged, with their murderers. … The martyr … accepts his death not at the hands of his enemies … but from God to whom he has to give an account of the state of his soul.”
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