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It was one of the most appalling catastrophes of history, but can the Holocaust be seen in some measure to have been a test? The most familiar images are of genocidal murderers, acquiescent local populations and victims going like “sheep to the slaughter”. But, as the title of Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern’s book suggests, there were those who were “no ordinary men”, t
06 February 2014, The Tablet
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Put to the test
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