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Georges Charpak, 68, son of Polish immigrants, who served in the French Resistance in World War II and survived Dachau. A physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva since 1959, he was honored for his 1968 work in particle physics and invention of the "multiwire proportional chamber," a tool physicists use to probe the nature of matter. Charpak will use the award for research...
...portion of the book which describes the forced relocation of Auschwitz inmates to Dachau in 1945 is perhaps the most numbing. Many of those who escaped death in the gas chambers died of exposure during the forced marches or of starvation in the cattle cars...
...establishment at Berggasse 19. "Looking up at his quarters, I always wondered why this great man chose to live there." (Bettelheim has a theory about that too.) Finally, Vienna expelled both of them, Freud to sanctuary in London in 1938, Bettelheim to a year in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald...
Ultimately, Bettelheim had to return to Dachau. His taxi drove past the barracks that he had once inhabited. "For a moment," he writes, "I was tempted to ask the driver to stop and let me out, but children were playing in front of it, and I thought better of disturbing their play and privacy for the sake of what by now was empty curiosity." This is a book that expresses kindness, strength and wisdom...
Rifkin, who has no real science background, has been deeply distrustful of scientists since he visited Dachau in the late 1960s. "The Nazis could have just slaughtered people, but look at the manner in which they did it," he says. "It was detached, rational. It was scientific. The Holocaust represents the dark side of the modern...