Reviews

»A valuable and chilling addition to the histories of Nazi Germany ... Whatever Pomsel's degree of guilt, her choice of words and actions raise important questions about coercion and complicity ... Sometimes, as with Pomsel's testimony, it is the absences from the record or the contradictions within it that are the most telling. Reading this book we must hope that we can learn from history in a way that she could not.«
Claire Mulley, Daily Telegraph

»The last surviving eyewitness to the Nazi power apparatus ... Her memories are remarkable given her age. Yet this book is also notable for what is not recalled ... These gaps result not from memory's decay, but from willful denial ... An effective warning.«
Gerard DeGroot, The Times

»Not only one of the most important contributions to analyses of the Holocaust, but in light of today's political situation, it is a long overdue, timeless warning to today's generation and those yet to come.«
Daniel Chanoch, Holocaust Survivor

»Frighteningly topical in asking for the responsibility of the individual on political current events.«
Kurier

»Political scientist Thore D. Hansen puts Pomsel's narration into a historical context and shows in a passionate plea for political engagement in a democracy where careerism, an unreflecting sense of duty and political lack of interest can lead us. A warning in particular with regard to Syria, Turkey and Trump's USA where we are seeing similar opportunistic blindness happening again.«
ekz

»Exponents of Western liberal values should be even more frightened than we are already.«
Sunday Times

»The coexistence of the seemingly irreconcilable is the most eerie of it all. And we allknow what that is like.«
Die Presse