THE BEAST
BESTIALITY: A _ record of German atrocities in Poland. Polish Ministry of Information. It is difficult for normal people to believe in the abnormal. Sometimes it is impossible. The only defence some of us have against horrors that are more horrible than we can bear is angry disbelief. It is Nature’s way of tempering the wind to the shorn lamb. But now and again it fails. Belief, with all the sickening things that belief entails, takes sudden hold of us, and the problem then is to retain our own normality. It will be the problem of anyone who reads this booklet. If half of, it is true, it will be a terrifying thing to be a German when the war ends; almost:as terrible as to be a Pole in Poland to-day. Meanwhile, it is terrifying to think how easy it would bo to plunge into savageries of reprisal, and how difficult it will be, whatever heppens now, to separate the innocent from the guilty, the reformable from the damned.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 9
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170THE BEAST New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 195, 19 March 1943, Page 9
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