‘Das Wesensmoment der Herrschft von Menschen über Menschen ist im Faschismus… rein ausgebildet’ (Jürgen Habermas).
“The commandant of one labor camp I was in after Auschwitz and before Belsen, he was the embodiment of evil. I was working in a kitchen which meant I got to eat a raw potato which was good. On the way back to our barracks I saw the commandant line up a few Jews and shout to them to dance, sing, count and on the count of ten he shot them” (Esther Brunstein is a survivor of the Lodz ghetto, Belsen and Auschwitz camps. Socialist Review 173).
