After Auschwitz

The realization that some men will construct a factory in which to kill other men raises the gravest questions about man himself. We have entered an age which we cannot avoid labeling "After Auschwitz." If we are to begin to understand ourselves we must somehow come to grips with the reality of Auschwitz.

Karl A. Schleunes, The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy toward German Jews, 1933-39, p. xiii