The first 13 of the 18 documents, collectively called The Extermination of the Jews, were not in any way new stories to me. In fact I came into this book with the same attitude that I usually do when faced with Holocaust stories, that of "Yes it was horrible, but I know all about it already. This reading isn't going to do anything to my attitude." I, as I always am in thinking such a thought, was …showed first 75 words of 2110 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2110 total…enough to override the human conscience? The sociologist makes an excellent point when he states ,"what is the correct balance between individual initiative and authority?" Indeed this is a question that we must ask if we are to proceed in a workable society. We cannot have a world without leadership, but similarly we should not surrender our individuality to the state or we come closer to the negative utopias described in 1984 and Brave New World.