SUFFERING AND DYING AT THE FRONT/
SUFFERING AND DYING AT AUSCHWITZ

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RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY:: TOWARD THE FINAL SOLUTION
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A sign at the entrance to Auschwitz read, “I bid you welcome. This is not a holiday resort but a labor camp. Just as our soldiers risk their lives at the front, you will have to work for the welfare of a new Europe.”

Just as German soldiers were suffering and dying at the front, so Jews would be required to suffer and die at Auschwitz: to undergo an even more horrible ordeal.

The Nazis understood the analogy I have presented here: the suffering and death of German soldiers and the suffering and death of Jews were two sides of the same coin: as soldiers were suffering and dying at the front, so Jews would suffer and die at Auschwitz. 
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The CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to present the Richard W. Smith Lecture in Culture Studies with special guest, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg. Psychologist, historian and leading authority on Hitler and Nazism