CAN A PERPETRATOR WRITE A TESTIMONIO? Moral Lessons from the Dark Side

By posing a heuristically provocative question, this essay compares and explores in some detail the testimonies of three infamous perpetrators from the Nazi period—Albert Speer, Rudolph Hoess, and Adolf Eichmann—for what they reveal about their motives, ideological thinking, and strategies of denial...

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Main Author: Twiss, Sumner B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-42
Further subjects:B Testimony
B Rudolph Hoess
B Albert Speer
B Adolf Eichmann
B Nazi perpetrators
B Moral Evil
B Moral Psychology
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