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Behind the Bastards
It was mentioned as a seminal work on the topic of Auschwitz where the Mengele Effect was coined as a form of memory displacement. The author claimed that many survivors idealized or misattributed acts of violence to Mengele.
He noted that many former inmates not only insisted they'd had direct contact with Mengele, but, and this is really strange, they tended to remember him as being hot.
— Episode: Part Four: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doct...
Episode: Part Four: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors
It was mentioned as a seminal work on the topic of Auschwitz where the Mengele Effect was coined as a form of memory displacement. The author claimed that many survivors idealized or misattributed acts of violence to Mengele.
He noted that many former inmates not only insisted they'd had direct contact with Mengele, but, and this is really strange, they tended to remember him as being hot.
those who kept the machinery of murder going in Auschwitz were not devils. They were humans.