The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Andre Malraux

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The Holocaust

Author

Andre Malraux

Language

French

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

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