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Ethics After Auschwitz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Franklin H. Littell
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Ten years ago, in an address to an audience of German students, Peter Lotar, author of Das Bild des Menschen, raised the question of how the years of the Third Reich's power and crimes shall be dealt with.

How can we build the future when we are not finished with the past? How can we avoid the old mistakes when we don't even recognize them yet? We have a choice: do we intend to freeze fast in self-deception? or do we intend to carry through the cleaning up of ourselves and thereby grant ourselves and our children a full, new life?

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Research Article
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Worldview , Volume 18 , Issue 9 , September 1975 , pp. 22 - 26
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1975

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